I’m looking for a router solution to run in a gaming environment with QoS priority queues and am curious what to expect with the RB750Gr3.
Right now we have a consumer grade TP-Link router which has a somewhat crude “Bandwidth Control” feature. It does work for our application and we can specify rules to guarantee bandwidth on the ports we need for specific machines on the network. But enabling the feature (even with no rules) results in a ~30% decrease in overall bandwidth for all connections going through the router. We have a 120/12Mb connection which drops to 80-95/9 when we turn on the feature.
I’ve looked at the documentation:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/NetworkPro_on_Quality_of_Service
As well as this blog:
https://r1ch.net/blog/routerboard
And it certainly seems like I can setup the kind of QoS we need with a RouterOS device. I would like to have rules that say something like:
UDP packets from local hosts 10.0.0.10.20/25 on ports 15000:52500 get the highest priority
But I’m curious what to expect in terms of performance impact for other clients on the network using a RB750Gr3?