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The Best Solution
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.
The Best Solution
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.
The Best Solution
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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