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Is there any way to set priority to the ethernet ports?

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:47 am
by danman132x
Hello, I was wondering if there is any way to set priority to the ethernet ports on my RB951G-2HnD. RouterOS 5.26. I see under Bridge->Ports I can open up the settings for my ethernet and there is a section that says priority= 80 (hex) and path cost=10. Is this maybe a way to give priority to the ethernet cables? I just don't know what numbers to assign though if it is. I would like my devices to get priority that are hard wired. Example, I was watching netflix on my ethernet connected PS4 and someone else watched a video on wifi which caused my netflix to degrade in quality. I want to set priority so my speed stays up, and the wireless devices are slowed down. I don't want to set up bandwidth limiting though on my wireless for regular use since I'm on the laptop all the time when Im not playing/watching the PS3/4.

I was able to set up a QOS like this on my old WRT54G, so hopefully it's possible to do something similar.

Re: Is there any way to set priority to the ethernet ports?

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 3:02 pm
by CelticComms
Bridge port priority is used in spanning tree protocol - it is not a QOS setting.

Re: Is there any way to set priority to the ethernet ports?

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 3:51 pm
by agehall
QoS on your LAN won't help if a wifi-client can cause your wire-connections to degrade when streaming. That would be an issue on the upstream link, so that is where you need to do the QoS or, even better, just get more bandwidth...