Re: anyone have any luck with the QoS facility of the edimax BR-6524 and packet8 VoIP?

keith bierman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> The issue is that with a phone call in progress, a large upload causes
> serious voice quality issues. I find the BR8524 documentation overly
> terse in this area, and my various experiments have all ended with no
> discernable difference.
>
> Anyone use this feature with packet8 to good effect? If so, care to
> share the details of your configuration?
>
> My thanks, in advance.
>
> khb

I have the same problem. I tried to prioritize important (WEB,mail)
traffic over p2p, but I can't really say I noticed any difference. The
feature is nearly undocumented and it's use is quite unintuitive. From
the options offered it seems that, if the QoS even works, it can
classify traffic in only two different priority groups - the
prioritized and unprioritized. I'm very dissapointed since the only
reason for buying this router was QoS, I don't need the secondary WAN
port.

Also, even more concerning, I have problems with my PPPoE connection.
It seems that heavy load (especialy p2p traffic) sometimes makes the
router drop the PPPoE connection. Before, I was on cable so I wasn't
affected by this issue.

The customer support acknowledged another bug - the defect in the DHCP
server that made the router freeze often. The proposed sollution was
to leave it off (?!)

Now I'm in a process of building a linux based router from some old
computer parts since it seems that the only way to fix this lousy
router is with a hammer

Goran wrote:
>
> the options offered it seems that, if the QoS even works, it can
> classify traffic in only two different priority groups - the

two would be enough ... if the priorization actually translates into
really giving the VoIP device priority ;> (we're simple people ;>)
>
> Also, even more concerning, I have problems with my PPPoE connection.

Not a feature we're utilizing.
>
> The customer support acknowledged another bug - the defect in the DHCP
> server that made the router freeze often. The proposed sollution was
> to leave it off (?!)
Humm, haven't seemed to have had that. Can you describe the situation
with more details?