consorts
Senior Member
i need some form of qos that really works, not pretty screens full of ineffective nonsense. over the years when any pc does a major os upgrade, it seems to hog all our bandwidth that knocks the vpn clients my home school and work people use offline, and then i get an earful from the wife. as a mmorpg player i want to shave 10-20% off the top my isp offer in order to improve in game latency. so now that i have this new ax88u-pro to play with, i was hoping the qos section would be more mature by now. the good news is adaptive:manual works (it just disables any qos that may be set at the guest ssid level, which is fine).
what is weird is adaptive:automatic which regulars here have been advocating for years, seems bogus, as all it does is some lame attempt to identify what you are doing (which i hate because it smells of metadata tracking) then lumping that into a category, often incorrectly. the majority of our traffic is video streaming using android smart tv's, android tv boxes, firesticks, yet that category type is empty, presumably lumped in with "network" or "learn from home", i simply can't tell at this point. i really want to just go back to using manual of 270/270 and be done with it, and stop all this categorizing nonsense with seems to be nothing short of placebo to me.
so i guess my real question is; does adaptive;manual actually work now? i know it did not 7 years ago on my ac3100 as our vpn clients were still getting choked off when any one pc had an os update that i could not throttle at the client. if manual really works, meaning no single connection can hog more than 270/270 at any one moment, then i'd rather just leave it at that. i just don't know because the hardware and firmware has evolved since my last new router install, and i have no idea now what is actually mature and working, and what is still merely marketing placebo. sorry for the rant, but i just found out most of the AiCloud section does not work reliably either, so now I worry about other Asus features I was counting on using when I bought this expensive router.
and yes,
i'm sure i could find some client agent that will qos at the client level,
(i already do this when using any p2p agent)
but i really don't want to have to deal with all that housekeeping,
as this expensive router should be doing this.
what is weird is adaptive:automatic which regulars here have been advocating for years, seems bogus, as all it does is some lame attempt to identify what you are doing (which i hate because it smells of metadata tracking) then lumping that into a category, often incorrectly. the majority of our traffic is video streaming using android smart tv's, android tv boxes, firesticks, yet that category type is empty, presumably lumped in with "network" or "learn from home", i simply can't tell at this point. i really want to just go back to using manual of 270/270 and be done with it, and stop all this categorizing nonsense with seems to be nothing short of placebo to me.
so i guess my real question is; does adaptive;manual actually work now? i know it did not 7 years ago on my ac3100 as our vpn clients were still getting choked off when any one pc had an os update that i could not throttle at the client. if manual really works, meaning no single connection can hog more than 270/270 at any one moment, then i'd rather just leave it at that. i just don't know because the hardware and firmware has evolved since my last new router install, and i have no idea now what is actually mature and working, and what is still merely marketing placebo. sorry for the rant, but i just found out most of the AiCloud section does not work reliably either, so now I worry about other Asus features I was counting on using when I bought this expensive router.
and yes,
i'm sure i could find some client agent that will qos at the client level,
(i already do this when using any p2p agent)
but i really don't want to have to deal with all that housekeeping,
as this expensive router should be doing this.
