90% of people aren’t worth the time

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  • My internet is crazy fast but what I’m trying to accomplish is this: if the internet bandwidth were to decrease dramatically or become crazy congested, I’d like the router to prioritize some traffic between the LAN and WAN.

    Let’s imagine I only have a 20 Mbps connection and I have a someone on a FaceTime call, for sake of argument everyone else is downloading huge software updates. I want the call to be prioritized.

    I understand the ISP will drop DSCP but internally my AP will translate that to WMM no? Again, my AP is fantastic but in theory I’d like it to prioritize the call’s packets. Those obviously pass through the router from WAN to LAN so I’m not understanding the argument that this should only be done based on host and port.