How do I configure Bandwidth Control / IP-QoS on TP-LINK wireless router
Suitable for: 300Mbps Wireless N Router,150Mbps Wireless N Router,54Mbps Wireless G Router
Suitable for: 300Mbps Wireless N Router,150Mbps Wireless N Router,54Mbps Wireless G Router
Why we need IP QoS (Bandwidth Control)?
Within a normal home network, the bandwidth is shared by all computers. This means any computer using high-bandwidth applications, for example torrent programs or other P2P software, will affect the other computers. This may also include negative affects on the performance of the entire network. How can we avoid this?
The answer is IP QoS, which is designed to minimize the impact caused when the connection is under heavy load. Using IP QoS, we can assign a specific minimum or maximum bandwidth for each computer, which means they have less impact on each other. Please follow the steps below to configure IP QoS.
How to configure IP QoS?
Step 1 Open the web browser and type the LAN address of the router in the address bar and then press Enter. The default IP address of TP-LINK router is 192.168.1.1.
Step 2 Type the username and password in the login page, the default username and password of TP-LINK router are both admin in lowercase.
Step 3 Click QoS->QoS Settings on the left page and tick Enable QoS. The Egress Bandwidth and Ingress Bandwidth should be the real bandwidth your ISP provides to you.
Within a normal home network, the bandwidth is shared by all computers. This means any computer using high-bandwidth applications, for example torrent programs or other P2P software, will affect the other computers. This may also include negative affects on the performance of the entire network. How can we avoid this?
The answer is IP QoS, which is designed to minimize the impact caused when the connection is under heavy load. Using IP QoS, we can assign a specific minimum or maximum bandwidth for each computer, which means they have less impact on each other. Please follow the steps below to configure IP QoS.
How to configure IP QoS?
Step 1 Open the web browser and type the LAN address of the router in the address bar and then press Enter. The default IP address of TP-LINK router is 192.168.1.1.
Step 2 Type the username and password in the login page, the default username and password of TP-LINK router are both admin in lowercase.
Step 3 Click QoS->QoS Settings on the left page and tick Enable QoS. The Egress Bandwidth and Ingress Bandwidth should be the real bandwidth your ISP provides to you.
Egress Bandwidth-The upload stream through the WAN port.
Ingress Bandwidth-The download stream through the WAN port.
Step 4 Click Save to save the QoS Settings.
Step 5 Click QoS->QoS Rules List on the left page, you can view and configure the QoS rules.
Description-This is the information to describe the QoS rule.
Egress Bandwidth-This field displays the max and min upload stream through the WAN port.
Ingress Bandwidth-This field displays the max and min download stream through the WAN port.
Enable-This displays the status of the rules.
Modify-Click “Modify” to edit the rule.
Click “Delete” to delete the rule.
Step 6 Click Add New to add a new QoS rule.
IP Range-Single IP address or IP address Range. When you configure the single IP address, the computer with this IP address will get independent given bandwidth. When you configure the IP address range, all computers in the range will share given bandwidth.
Port Range-The port arrange of TCP protocol or UDP protocol.
Protocol-You can choose the TCP protocol or UDP protocol or both of them.
Min Bandwidth- Assurable bandwidth,whenever,even though the traffic is very large in your network, as long as you have demand, it will support you assurable bandwidth at least.
Max Bandwidth-Limited bandwidth, when the network is idle, you can use idle bandwidth adequately, but it should be less than Max Bandwidth.
Step 7 Configure the QoS settings as per your real demand.
Note:
The amount of Min Egress Bandwidth and the amount of Min Ingress Bandwidth you configure should be less than Egress Bandwidth and Ingress Bandwidth you configure onQoS settings page previously.
Example
If your connection is based on ADSL and your ISP provides 2Mbps downstream and 512K upstream, and you have 2 computers in network, you want each computer to have independent bandwidth for use, please configure IP QoS as the diagram below.
Egress Bandwidth and Ingress Bandwidth are real bandwidth upstream and downstream provided by your ISP.
Please configure the QoS Rule Settings for each computer as below:
Step 8 Click “Save” to save the settings you have configured.
