Routers, static IPs and QoS settings

[Swish]

Hey guys, I'm extremely unfortunate to live with another 6 guys in the same house and we share a fairly pitiful internet connection. P99 has been quite the "go to" game over the last year or more because of its low bandwidth usage.

Sadly, a few people are unrelenting in downloading 24/7 and the only way to sneakily get around these activities aside from pulling the plug is to tinker with the "Quality of Service" settings on the router or create a "static IP", but I don't quite know the score on how to do that. I've scoured the internet and can't seem to find anything that gives definitive answers...thought I'd ask here :)

QOS pictures below. The second one is full of boxes to put stuff in. Has anyone done this themselves before? Any suggestions appreciated. :)

Router, for what its worth is a HG523a (made by "Huawei"... who are they?)

http://i.imgur.com/cJySU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wcFli.jpg

[Lexical]

Put your MAC address in the source MAC and P99's server IP Address in the Destination IP Address and set the rule as a high priority(setting the Queue to 1) and everyone else as low/mid priority. The router should take it from there.

BTW Huawei is a garbage Chinese router company. FX disclosed hundreds of vulns in their firmware recently. I would avoid.

[Lexical]

Also how in the sweet name of fuck would a static IP help you with data flow control?

[Bamzal Sherbet]

obviously the dude didnt take cisco net-acad, give em a break

[Knuckle]

huawei confirmed shit company, buy a netgear.

[Swish]

obviously the dude didnt take cisco net-acad, give em a break

True, I know my way around Windows but that's about where it stops :D


The static IP idea, from a bit of unconfirmed reading basically suggests that I can give a set IP address priority over every other device in the house.

Lexical - just MAC addresses, leaving the IP stuff alone completely? Happy to give it a go :)

[Bamzal Sherbet]

i spoof my mac and my ip

[Lexical]

Lexical - just MAC addresses, leaving the IP stuff alone completely? Happy to give it a go :)

Your IP address is variable since your router is acting as a DHCP server for your internal IP address. Thus your only identifying characteristic is your MAC address. The destination address(this is for P99) should be an IP address as you are not generically privy to such information.

The router **SHOULD** treat the blank values as a wildcard value.

The static IP idea, from a bit of unconfirmed reading basically suggests that I can give a set IP address priority over every other device in the house.

Oh! That is different >.<