Can Qos solve my delimma?

[ttran55]

I have been sharing my Dsl with my uncle ( next door) for free for a couple years when DSL was still expensive and I thought I didn't need all the bandwidth.
Now my cousins grew up and when they play internet games , I don't have enough bandwidth left to access my NAS, download, or to VPN to my company to work.
I ran 1 Cat5 cable cross the fence and he has another router with different subnet. He uses wired connections only and most of my PCs/laptops are using wireless.
My question is:
If I reserve IP address range from x.x.1.100-x.x1.120 for all my PCs (reserve static IP using the MAC addresses for both wired and wireless), can I use the Qos feature to give higher priority to this range regardless what kind of traffic, wired and wireless connections?

I am thinking of getting the DIR-825 from Fry's for two reasons: on sale and 5Ghz for HD streaming in the future.
Regards,
C.T

 

[llmercll]

I have been sharing my Dsl with my uncle ( next door) for free for a couple years when DSL was still expensive and I thought I didn't need all the bandwidth.
Now my cousins grew up and when they play internet games , I don't have enough bandwidth left to access my NAS, download, or to VPN to my company to work.
I ran 1 Cat5 cable cross the fence and he has another router with different subnet. He uses wired connections only and most of my PCs/laptops are using wireless.
My question is:
If I reserve IP address range from x.x.1.100-x.x1.120 for all my PCs (reserve static IP using the MAC addresses for both wired and wireless), can I use the Qos feature to give higher priority to this range regardless what kind of traffic, wired and wireless connections?

I am thinking of getting the DIR-825 from Fry's for two reasons: on sale and 5Ghz for HD streaming in the future.
Regards,
C.T

Don't take my word for it, because I'm still a networking n00bie, but I'm pretty sure QoS actually gives MORE bandwidth to the games.

Although it may be entirely possible to swap that by customizing it yourself, like I think you mentioned.

 

[ttran55]

Don't take my word for it, because I'm still a networking n00bie, but I'm pretty sure QoS actually gives MORE bandwidth to the games.

Although it may be entirely possible to swap that by customizing it yourself, like I think you mentioned.

You are right, I am afraid the new router gives more bandwidth to the gaming traffic.

 

[thiggins]

The default settings prioritize real-time traffic such as games, video and voice. But you can change those defaults to lower priority.

However, the real problem is that the D-Link router QoS is upstream only. So it doesn't do anything to control download bandwidth use, where you usually have a bigger problem.

See these articles for more on this subject:
Taming Your Network's Bandwidth Hogs - Part 1
Taming Your Network's Bandwidth Hogs - Part 2