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I have a fairly simple home network with a couple of computers and a bunch of video game consoles but I will also be adding VOIP in a few days.
I have a few classes of traffic: (listed in order of priority)
#1 - VOIP
#2 - ACK packets
#3 - Games
#4 - HTTP
#5 - Bulk traffic (Usenet/NTTP, Bittorrent, etc)
I don't really need to limit the bandwidth of anything though. For example, if there are no priority #1 - #4 packets than my bulk traffic may use 100% of the bandwidth. However, if VOIP traffic exists than it takes absolute 100% priority of bandwidth. (likewise for everything else in the chain)
I've actually purchased a nice little ALIX SBC (single board computer) to run pfSense because it supposedly has "superior" QoS but apparantly it uses HFSC for QoS and it's a bit confusing to understand.
Anyways, do I really need anything besides priority based queueing? Why would I need to limit bandwidth at all?
I have a few classes of traffic: (listed in order of priority)
#1 - VOIP
#2 - ACK packets
#3 - Games
#4 - HTTP
#5 - Bulk traffic (Usenet/NTTP, Bittorrent, etc)
I don't really need to limit the bandwidth of anything though. For example, if there are no priority #1 - #4 packets than my bulk traffic may use 100% of the bandwidth. However, if VOIP traffic exists than it takes absolute 100% priority of bandwidth. (likewise for everything else in the chain)
I've actually purchased a nice little ALIX SBC (single board computer) to run pfSense because it supposedly has "superior" QoS but apparantly it uses HFSC for QoS and it's a bit confusing to understand.
Anyways, do I really need anything besides priority based queueing? Why would I need to limit bandwidth at all?