QoS question - quick

RouterOS General
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Hi Guys

Please see attached picture. Is the below the best solution to prioritise different types of traffic?

-Mark all packets, according to dst port, leaving Eth2 with the respective “Upload” mark
-Mark all packets, according to dst port, leaving Eth1 with the respective “Download” mark

I’ve done some reading and from what I understand the above method is the best because it does not drop packets to limit speed. It rather slows down the traffic flow..is this correct?

Thanks
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You can “slow” packets by queuing them using one of the available queuing deciplines available. If and when that queue overflows, it will start to drop packets. Study the queuing deciplines in the documentation.