On my previous article I talked about how I’ve upgraded from DD-WRT to Tomato and how much of an improvement it was over DD-WRT. While I’m still tweaking my setup I thought I’d provide a quick tutorial on how to setup QoS in Tomato.
For those of though who don’t know, QoS (Quality of Service) provides different priorities to different users or data flows, or it can guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow in accordance with requests from the application program or the internet service provider policy. In Tomato’s case we are going to set it up to give priority to data flows. In a nutshell QoS tries to guarantee that important network protocols are given priority over non-important protocols. For example, http has priority over BitTorrent.
I’d like to start off my mentioning that there isn’t just one correct way to setup QoS. This guide is only intended to give you a basic idea on how to setup your own.
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About a year ago I discovered DD-WRT. I got excited when I started discovering the features it promised. I read a number of different forums about how much of an improvement it was over the “stock” firmware provided by Linksys. I was also sharing the internet connection between three people and was seeing the horrible performance. So I installed it.
After installing DD-WRT, I immediately saw a huge improvement. That slowly faded as the days passed. I started having to reboot the router after a few days of it being up. I spent countless hours scrolling through various wiki entries and forums to get the configuration perfect. I wasn’t alone in my issues with DD-WRT. I noticed that a large number of people were having issues similar to mine. Many people said how they have to reboot it after a few days. Other people were having issues with the QoS configuration. The biggest problem with DD-WRT was the lack of updates. The last stable released was in mid September 2006. I kept using it though because, regardless of its shortcomings, it was a much better solution than the stock firmware.
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