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--- qos-settings [2024/04/11 16:42] – [QoS - Basic Principles] -clarity, grammar hogwild
+++ qos-settings [2024/04/12 16:02] – [QoS is not Bandwidth Limiter] -formatting hogwild
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 ====== QoS - Basic Principles ======
-Quality of Service (QoS) is a method to prioritize/penalize predefined types of traffic. QoS is a complex topic so this text will discuss only enough basic principles to help you configure an initial setup.   \\  \\
+Quality of Service (QoS) is a method to prioritize/penalize predefined types of traffic. QoS is a complex topic so this text will discuss only enough basic principles to help you configure an initial setup.
+==== QoS is not Bandwidth Limiter ====
+QoS is not the same as FreshTomato's [[bwlimit|Bandwidth Limiter]]. \\
+  * QoS analyzes all traffic on all clients on the network.
+  * QoS follows rules for prioritizing one type of traffic over another.
+  * Bandwidth Limiter limits the bandwidth used by one or more client devices on the network.
+  * Bandwidth Limiter prioritizes one client device/group of client devices over others. \\ It does not analzye traffic types.
+ \\
+If you need a simple, crude tool for one or more known client devices, Bandwidth Limiter may be all that you need.
+QoS is a more sophisticated, more refined tool.
+However, Bandwidth Limiter shares a few settings with QoS. When Bandwidth Limiter is enabled, QoS should be disabled, and vice versa. If both are enabled, they will conflict with each other and neither will work. \\
 Basically, QoS performs the following:\\

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