Router or switch QoS internet lagg

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So my problem is that my household has about 6 computers and our internet connection is wireless (therefore not very good) 5 down 1 up. Most of the time the internet is fine, people can stream netflix and youtube all they want no problems but sometimes 1 or more netflix streams can absolutely destroy the internet connection... I'm talking about 2,000+ Ping. Most of us are gamers so this is a big problem for us.

 

Would QoS help? I have a DIR 615 router (piece of shit I know) the QoS on it didn't seem to do anything...

Should I buy a good router, would the QoS be better?

 

Also for that matter I currently am in the market to upgrade my switch, the one I have is only 100Mbps so I want to upgrade to 1000Mbps. I was looking at some on Newegg and I noticed that there was an option for QoS. 

 

So questions questions questions...

Will Qos even help with my problem?

Is a switch with QoS just as good as a router?

Recommendations?

 

Most of my home network is run on CAT 6

several of our gaming rigs have network cards capable of 1000Mbps

[Rough Draft]

Honestly I'm not so sure I quite understand QoS...  Wish Linus would do a video on it

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Double posted from my phone*

[dzonidev]

QoS won't help you much. If anything it will make it even worse. QoS is known to slow down the network on consumer grade gear, such as your router.

You have 5/1Mbps internet and you run several Netflix streams at once? What kind of magic is your internet running on?

 

Anyways, the problem is your internet speed/connection. There's not much you can do to make the situation better. Since you are running a wireless link to your ISP you can only try getting a higher speed or well switching ISPs to cable or even fiber optics, actually I think even ADSL is better than wireless.

[Rough Draft]

QoS won't help you much. If anything it will make it even worse. QoS is known to slow down the network on consumer grade gear, such as your router.

You have 5/1Mbps internet and you run several Netflix streams at once? What kind of magic is your internet running on?

 

Anyways, the problem is your internet speed/connection. There's not much you can do to make the situation better. Since you are running a wireless link to your ISP you can only try getting a higher speed or well switching ISPs to cable or even fiber optics, actually I think even ADSL is better than wireless.

We've had up to 3 Netflix streams going at once without lagg but the problem is more when the Internet slows down when 1 stream will lagg the connection to high hell.  The reason I'm on wireless is because we live on a farm, no cable definitely no fibre D:

 

We aren't concerned about steams taking time to load we just don't want to mess up each others gaming sessions by starting a video stream 

[T.Vengeance]

Honestly I'm not so sure I quite understand QoS...  Wish Linus would do a video on it

They actually did do a video about it. I remember linus puting some router to the test with lots of things running. Utorrent, gaming, streaming and etc. Hold on while I try to find the video.

 

Edit: Can't find it, but I'm pretty sure they did make a video on it. But it's buried in youtube history.

[Blebekblebek]

the one that linus review is premium router ($1000)

 

basically the qos management in most router are non existant

 

if your router support Tomato firmware you can try it, it's the most capable Firmware for consumer grade router, not even DDWRT could do better than that.

 

you also might need web/cache server for your needs.

[Rough Draft]

They actually did do a video about it. I remember linus puting some router to the test with lots of things running. Utorrent, gaming, streaming and etc. Hold on while I try to find the video.

 

Edit: Can't find it, but I'm pretty sure they did make a video on it. But it's buried in youtube history.

I'll have a look tonight, I know I seen a YouTube video with cool images to explain it.  I don't know where I seen it thought

[dzonidev]

I don't know what kind of distance there is between the ISP Acess Point and your farm. But I'm sure as hell that speed can be higher.

 

When you are using a big chunk of your bandwidth the latency goes up, in normal circumstances as in Cable, ADSL, Fiber those numbers are still small. However when it comes to Wireless it's a whole different story. Even if you do QoS it won't solve your latency problems. Because the latency problem is between your AP and the ISP. Not between you and your AP.