Need help in setting-up QoS (using Merlin 270.26b)

[Ozpa]

Hello everyone

I'm trying to set up QoS and right now I can't make the following simple rule to work:

I leave my utorrent downloading at max speed.
Whenever I need to use port 80 (browsing or downloading from the web) utorrent would slow downloading to prioritize the whatever's needed on port 80. Once there's no traffic on 80 - torrents would resume to whatever's allowed as full speed. Really simple.

Right now if I do that then my download on 80 is only at 10-20% (when I know it can be over 60% if I slowed down utorrent). I tried both - enabling QoS without adding the port used for incoming connections (I don't use PnP) and with the default QoS settings (where I heard people say you just need to set port 80 to high priority and it will automatically be above utorrent when it comes to traffic). My utorrent is not using a random port each start (I checked my firewall and it said that port you enter in utorrent is the "TCP IN" port through which I get data/download). I also checked the TCP OUT port in the firewall which is used to share/upload, it was in the 40k-65k range and random for every connection. I don't really know what that means but that's what I found out.
I feel like it's hard for the QoS to grasp which traffic belongs to utorrent, I have yet to find a QoS guide that controls bittorent traffic in an effective way.

Sorry for the rant, I'm pulling out my hair here trying to make this thing work as I want it to.

 

[RMerlin]

The way Asus's QoS works, any unclassified traffic will fall in the low priority category. So if you have no rule for torrent traffic, it will end up as low priority. This is the simplest way to do it, since classifying torrent traffic can be tricky.

The default rules out of the box should already do this.

 

[Ozpa]

I did some searching and what I've found most people say is that QoS doesn't really work (or is not meant) when you're downloading torrents on 70-90% speed. You will still get way higher delay in games even if all the used ports are set to highest priority. I guess if you're hammering your upload bandwidth QoS might help prioritize what goes out earlier but if you clog your download stream your ping to services such as games will be hit with no way to remedy it.