Wireless Router with good QoS

[Lotus]

I'm looking for a good wireless router with good QoS. Our current one isn't cutting it. I just got a new roommate, and while we have the bandwidth for us both, whenever one of is streaming, the other's ping spikes. If my roommate is streaming netflix, my ping in CS:GO spikes to 150-200, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Same for him, if I'm streaming his ping spikes as well. Wireless-N is fine as long as it's dual band. What are some really good trusted routers? Keep in mind, my primary goal is to fix this ping thing so he can stream and I can play competitive FPS games without a ping hit. I don't want to prioritize my access over his, I just want good QoS.

[Footy]

I'm looking for a good wireless router with good QoS. Our current one isn't cutting it. I just got a new roommate, and while we have the bandwidth for us both, whenever one of is streaming, the other's ping spikes. If my roommate is streaming netflix, my ping in CS:GO spikes to 150-200, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Same for him, if I'm streaming his ping spikes as well. Wireless-N is fine as long as it's dual band. What are some really good trusted routers? Keep in mind, my primary goal is to fix this ping thing so he can stream and I can play competitive FPS games without a ping hit. I don't want to prioritize my access over his, I just want good QoS.

 

How fast is your internet? http://speedtest.net 

 

I would expect netflix to download at max speed till it has 3-4 mins of buffer, then every 5-10 seconds a small burst of traffic, however on slower connections netflix will try to stream HD but if there is insufficient BW it will drop back to standard definition but it will continue to try and buffer for HD streaming.

This is why I ask about how much bandwidth you have, if you have <10mb then I would expect to see issues with HD streaming and a possible way to resolve this would be in your preferences select standard def rather than HD.

[techguru]

I'm looking for a good wireless router with good QoS. Our current one isn't cutting it. I just got a new roommate, and while we have the bandwidth for us both, whenever one of is streaming, the other's ping spikes. If my roommate is streaming netflix, my ping in CS:GO spikes to 150-200, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Same for him, if I'm streaming his ping spikes as well. Wireless-N is fine as long as it's dual band. What are some really good trusted routers? Keep in mind, my primary goal is to fix this ping thing so he can stream and I can play competitive FPS games without a ping hit. I don't want to prioritize my access over his, I just want good QoS.

asus ac56u

[Lotus]

30 down, 6 up.

 

My roommate got fed up and went and bought an Asus RT-AC87R, and that seems to have kind of solved it. My CS:GO ping only spikes to 100 now when buffering, which is playable I guess but still not ideal.

[SChris]

You can get the Asus N66U for about 125 dollars.
It support both 2.4 and 5GHz, is dd-wrt compatible, the coverage is great, I have 2 laptops, 1 TV, 3 phones and also a PS4 and the signal is stable. You can also install dd-wrt (there are some tutorial on the web)
As for speed performance the Asus is one of the fastest routers for a price bellow 200 dollars.

[dzonidev]

30 down, 6 up.

 

My roommate got fed up and went and bought an Asus RT-AC87R, and that seems to have kind of solved it. My CS:GO ping only spikes to 100 now when buffering, which is playable I guess but still not ideal.

 

The router should kill it when it comes to performance. What kind of internet connection do you have, Wireless, Cable, DSL, Fiber?

I'm asking this because at this point the router is not longer a bottleneck and there is very little you can do about the latency. Without getting into too much detail why and how, I'm only going to say that the separation of bandwidth is only at the router level, your internet line still needs to pull through all that data.

One thing you could do is traffic shaping, but that's very hard to setup and can backfire on you if not configured properly. Also I have no idea if Asus routers can even do something like that. I know Mikrotik can.

[Lotus]

We have cable internet, and without him streaming my ping is 30-45. With him, it's 50-60, with spikes to 100 when his stream decides it wants to buffer more.

 

Speed was never our concern, which is why I was a bit flummoxed when he bought a speed focused router. Ping and QoS was our concern.

[dzonidev]

We have cable internet, and without him streaming my ping is 30-45. With him, it's 50-60, with spikes to 100 when his stream decides it wants to buffer more.

 

Speed was never our concern, which is why I was a bit flummoxed when he bought a speed focused router. Ping and QoS was our concern.

 

You're right, I checked a few videos regarding your Asus router and it's QoS capabilities and it's crap... In all honesty you could have gone for something like a Mikrotik RB750G because the RouterOS has killer QoS features and you could fine tune the QoS to work like a dream.

 

I can only suggest you to change the QoS on the Asus from Intelligence to Traditional and go from there. Turn up packet priority for CS:GO traffic to max. And just experiment. Also leave some overhead, so if your internet speed is 30Mbps, limit the router to 28Mbps.

[Lotus]

I already did that. Those results were with that change, and CS:GO set to highest and default web traffic to high. The one you posted isn't wireless, and my roommate requires wireless, so that wont work. (and I couldn't find it anywhere).

[SOUTHwarrior]

As long as you arent maxing out your bandwidth you shouldnt be running into latency. If you are maxing your bandwidth with Qos something will still have to suffer regardless in terms of latency. Biggest thing you could do is just purchase a faster connection. The reason I say that is the router builds a que with the data you are sending and you classify which type of traffic you want to have higher priority in the que so if you are using that 30 down it wont help any. But as most people have already said you really need to buy a good quality router to help solve your lack of Qos settings, but me personally id buy a bigger pipe before investing in a better router.

[Lotus]

The only reason the bandwidth gets maxed is due to the way streams buffer. If it spaced it out, it would be fine, but streaming services buffer in bursts, and those bursts max out the connection.

[Footy]

The only reason the bandwidth gets maxed is due to the way streams buffer. If it spaced it out, it would be fine, but streaming services buffer in bursts, and those bursts max out the connection.

Netflix does seem to cap at 50mbit even on the initial burst so a faster internet could help

Or you could put a cap on the connections to Netflix so it doesn't go above 20mb

I haven't looked into how difficult it would be with Netflixs server locations and protocols but worth considering

Perhaps an alternative method would be to cap your hosts internally to 20mbit so it doesn't matter what one person does there is always some headroom