Setting up QoS rules on home network- Few doubts

[superczar]

Am thinking of setting up QoS (Quality of service ) rules on my home network as am pained by manually slowing down torrents when browsing
However, have a few doubts and would appreciate the help of anyone who has any experience on this...

While setting up the QoS rules, the setup page asks me for the maxm upload and download limites, which I presume it will use for the bandwidth allocation calculations
Now my connection is @ 256kbps (day) and 512 (night)
so assuming if i were to set 256 as my d/l speed, would the router allocate the full available bandwidth (512) to torrents at night?

Also, should I do a IP or MAC based bandwidth allocation and giving the lowest priority to the download machine?
Or should I rather set up a sevices based allocation giving the lowest prioirty to the Bittorrent service?

(The router is a Linksys WRT54g running DD-WRT firmware with multiple clients (fixed IPs in the 192.168.2.x range ) connecting to it)

 

[superczar]

No one using a QoS setup?

 

[el33t]

>>However, have a few doubts and would appreciate the help of anyone >>who has any experience on this...

I do use HTB(Linux traffic shaping) to control bandwidth in my company. It's very complex to understand though i managed to understand and implement it successfully. I apply the htb rules to the external(to regulate upload speed from the clients) and internal interface(to regulate download speed to the clients).

>>Now my connection is @ 256kbps (day) and 512 (night)

>>so assuming if i were to set 256 as my d/l speed, would the router >>allocate the full available bandwidth (512) to torrents at night?

no it won't.

>>Also, should I do a IP or MAC based bandwidth allocation and giving the >>lowest priority to the download machine?

>>Or should I rather set up a sevices based allocation giving the lowest >>prioirty to the Bittorrent service?

It depends on how the QoS is setup. But i wud suggest from my understanding go for Bit torrent service if it's just the p2p u wish to control.

Again i'm not an expert in it. I tried to answer your query from what i had done on linux with HTB.

Regards.