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Authored by: lullabud on Oct 25, '05 09:53:42AM

Thinking network-wide here, you don't want to go shutting down all apps on every node when you are running a video conference with your Boss, so the best solution is really having a router which supports QoS. Skype doesn't appear to support diffserv tagging, but there's no doubt it will some time in the future. Until then you'd have to have a QoS router where you could set up IP QoS rules based on IP addresses, protocol and port number. That way your time-sensitive traffic always gets highest priority, even when other internet traffic exists.



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Authored by: samkass on Oct 25, '05 02:24:59PM

The iChat that shipped with Tiger enabled QoS flagging for all its packets. It caused all kinds of problems with routers and ISPs that didn't support it, leading to a significant number of people that couldn't use it at all. I think 10.4.2 either made it optional or disabled it entirely. QoS isn't really ready for "prime time" yet.



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Authored by: BiL Castine on Oct 26, '05 06:22:18AM

if you have a Linksys WRT54G router, Sveasoft http://www.sveasoft.com(and many others) make hacked firmware that will enable QoS scheduling. read the web site before purchasing a router, and be sure your router is v4 or lower (v5 is current and severely crippled compared to earlier versions)



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