QoS questions for newbie

[jevvv]

Hi folks, and thanks for the help so far. I've got Gargoyle on my TP-Link router, and we have quotas set up for each family member and the two students who board with us (main reason to use the quotas!)

I realised the other day that I need a way to limit how much of the connection either of the students can commandeer - there are times when I can't get online because they are busy on something.

So I guess that means setting QoS up for priorities: question: can I do this specific to a user rather than program type or activity type? I don't really care if the students blow their quota on chat versus games, but I do mind that I get stinky connections because they're already active on the connection.

Does this make sense?

Thanks!

--jevvv in EnZed

[pbix]

There are no "users" in Gargoyle but you can use IP addresses to indicate how traffic from different machines should be handled. In your case assign IP addresses by MAC address for the machines you care about. Then make a class with the priority you desire and then rules to route traffic from those machines to that class. Then students fall into the default class with different priority.

[jevvv]

Thanks pbix. We're already using quotas with MAC addys assigned to specific IPs, so I guess it's now just a case of designating what priority his IP gets.