Linksys Router QoS

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I do a lot of Bit Torrenting and I am constantly browsing websites and instant messaging. The other people in the house have their own computers but only check e-mail and surf the web. I set my Linksys router to give the first physical port on the back of the router the highest priority. (my computer). The others are set to low. Will this be better than not having QoS enabled? Anyone have a lot of experience with QoS on the Linksys? Thanks!

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I do a lot of Bit Torrenting and I am constantly browsing websites and instant messaging.  The other people in the house have their own computers but only check e-mail and surf the web.  I set my Linksys router to give the first physical port on the back of the router the highest priority.  (my computer).  The others are set to low.  Will this be better than not having QoS enabled?  Anyone have a lot of experience with QoS on the Linksys?  Thanks!

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I use the QoS on my wrt54g, but it in the opposite reason you do. I have the ports used by my fianc?'s and my computer for bittorrents set to low, since otherwise browsing becomes slow. Also, I have it set that the HTPC ethernet port, since it streams files from my desktop, set to high so there's no lag and breakup of the video.

I'm not sure that I understand your question, since part of QoS is the ability to set priority on the ethernet ports. Are you asking if you should set it another way? The way you have it currently will give your computer and activity the most percived bandwidth, the other computers will suffer if you are downloading alot, which can be both good and bad depending on who you are.

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