-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Ben Williams Sent: Monday, 13 April 2015 7:40 PM To: MikroTik Australia Public List Subject: [MT-AU Public] Traffic prioritisation

Hey,

I've got an RB951G-2HnD (running 6.27) on my home network, and I want to do some traffic prioritisation, because my ADSL sync maxes out at 5.5mbps. I want to:

- make everything that comes from the Internet to my AppleTV high priority (Netflix :) ) - make everything to phones medium priority - make everything to my PC - which is mostly used for downloading Linux distros - low priority

Without limiting the bandwidth of any of them; i.e. if nothing is going to

Hi Ben! First thing worth mentioning is that the proper place to put traffic queue is on the SENDER router - in other words, on your own router, you can efficiently manage UPLOAD rates, but not so much DOWNLOAD rates. Having said that, you can still shape your download traffic, but due to the implementation, you end up dropping packets that are already received at the client end (i.e. it has already traversed your link anyway) in order to whip the sender into paring back the rate those packets are transmitted. So although you /can/ force the remote end into some kind of conformity to your rules, it is not terribly efficient and under some circumstances can have an effect different to what you expect. OK, with that out of the way, on to your specifics. 1) yes - you are talking about QoS, and 2) yes, 'queue' is the tool to do it. What you need to do it to read up on relevant queue concepts, and maybe ask some questions here to clarify! http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Queue For multiple classes of service, you need to look at queue tree - which happens to be one of the more complex functionalities of RouterOS (it is main topic of one of the 5 advanced certification classes MTCTCE) So don't need to feel bad if it doesn't make good sense right up front ;) Cheers! Mike. the

AppleTV, the full bandwidth should be available to my PC. If the AppleTV is wanting 3mbps, it should get all of that and the traffic to my PC should be limited to whatever's left.

Is that possible? I'm not much of a networking guy, and I'm sure there are proper terms to explain what I'm wanting to achieve :) (Am I talking about QoS? Is it a queues thing?)

- Ben

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