With everyone at home and online working and playing during COVID you may have noticed that your network connection may feel a bit sluggish. I know at times it is slow for me when I have my personal laptop, tablet, phone, work laptop running. Wife is online too with her tablet and Chromebook. Most days it isn't a problem for me as the connection to work is fast enough. However there are days I have to do a lot of file transfers that slow to a crawl.
I remember when I got the DLINK-878 router that I did an initial QoS (Quality of Service) setup for the machines, however, what the hardware we have has changed and I didn't update the QoS. I will show where to make the change and test before and after. The changes are not major as I have the machines running and not doing downloads (or playing games) so it doesn't impact the testing speed very much. When I did the change on Saturday the work machine downloaded files in half the time while I was playing a MMORPG on my main laptop.
Background:
I added the D-Link router to the Rogers modem as I needed to break up my internal network into several groups.
- Main SSID is for myself and the wife and all of our personal devices, printers and scanners;
- Guest SSID for anyone visiting;
- Work SSID. This is so that I can isolate the work machine from all other devices that are on the network and NO ONE can see the work machine;
- All SSIDs have their own unique name and password and I scan the Rogers modem and DLINK router weekly using FING using my Android tablet.
The instructions are specific to DLINK-878, but, other models and routers should have the QoS setting.
I then moved the machine to the highest setting and ran the speed test for a third time. It showed an improvement in speed.
