I'm not really familiar with this feature but would there be any noticable benifits of maxing or dropping this setting? I'm trying to squeeze out as much juice as I can from 56k here.
AT's the guy for this, but I'd make a system restore point, turn it off, see if theres any noticable difference (take a connection speed test maybe), and then decide to turn it off or on
Don't worry about turning it on. If it's enabled any QOS aware programs will take away bandwith from non QOS aware programs so your not going to notice a difference in the majority of online games and general surfing. Edit: Here's a link to some info on it, might help a bit trying to understand it .
Alright, thanks I'm starting to see this now, I guess I'll just leave it as is because I don't think I use any QoS programs right?
QoS is very practical and worthwhile technology that can really help you get the most out of your network by optimizing packet latency and throughput. That being said, it's much more useful on the router or the server than on the client. Scheduling packet priority at the gateway so that apps which are more realtime (like games) get the highest priority, web gets med priority, and mail, P2P, FTP, etc get low priority can really make your network feel less congested. For instance, IPCop has simple traffic shaping functionality built right into it. Here's what my home QoS setup looks like: Notice how latency-sensitive apps like games get a high priority, while less latency-critical apps like email get a low priority. -AT
Woh, looks like you've got things tuned to the nub there AT, good work, where do I go to choose my priorities or is that just a Linux thing?
