please guide me i buy managed switch to limit port speed and keep hardware acceleration or use QOS on router

[safwan264]

hi, i have asus router and i want to do qos, total limit, i have about 30 mbps and i want to limit it to 20 mbps towards my access point so that 10 mbps is always avaiable for my gaming setup and also this will keep the latency good. But i hear that qos on asus router or any router will disable hardware acceleration while a managed switch only limits speed and keeps hardware accelreation, with switch my setup would change to CPE -> Switch -> AP while with router with qos my setup would change to CPE -> ASUS -> AP.

My aim is to conserver bandwidth for my quest 2 so that latency is good,
any ideas?

 

[dave14305]

If you only have 30 Mbit service from the ISP, you don’t need to worry about hardware acceleration being disabled. The router can handle 30 Mbit without acceleration.

 

[Tech9]

i want to limit it to 20 mbps towards my access point

You have to limit the speed to the devices connected to to this access point though. Otherwise the limits will apply to the access point itself only and nothing else. And this access point perhaps needs time server only.

 

[safwan264]

You have to limit the speed to the devices connected to to this access point though. Otherwise the limits will apply to the access point itself only and nothing else. And this access point perhaps needs time server only.

do you mean that the managed port i connect to tplink c80 as AP, and limit the port speed to like 25 mbps, any device connected to the AP will bypass that limit?

 

[Tech9]

If you limit the port speed on a switch - the whole network segment connected there will be limited. If you limit the AP in your Asus router GUI - the limit will apply to the AP only. You have to include also the devices connected to the AP. No need to buy a switch, in Asus GUI you have Bandwidth Limiter and it can be set to a range of IPs. Just make sure the devices connecting to the AP are in this range.