Do you prioritize devices?

[YT_LowPingKing]

How many of y'all prioritize devices? What's your experience when doing so? Do games feel better or worse? Working on a video and trying to get a consensus of how many people add devices to the device list and what their experience is.

Thx

Scott

[DARKNESS]

@YT_LowPingKing

In general, I choose to set my gaming devices as the top priority, and I never deviate from that. The other devices simply don’t matter unless you are doing VOIP, so you’re forced to find the appropriate congestion control settings to ensure that everything is working properly. If you can discover the correct settings, then you don’t have to worry about anything else.

If a device is not assigned priority by SMARTBOOST, you can force it by adding ports 1-65535 to the priority list. However, keep in mind that doing so will disable all other priority settings, so it should be your last resort. That's because that will be the only device that will have priority.

[Slamchez]

Since I have more line than I probably need, I do but only for my mom's devices just as a precaution. I have a symmetrical gigabit line, and I honestly don't see any scenario where I would have to deal with congestion. The only things that really tax it are Steam downloads or something like that where I'm using hundreds of megabits per second. Streaming, at most uses 15mb/s in a burst. So even at Steam's full blast, there should still be enough room in the pipe that nothing should suffer. 

In Smartboost my activities are: 1. Gaming 2. Video and Streaming 3. Call of Duty. If XDefiant was there it'd be 3rd or 4th. 

But devices are just her iPad and her AppleTV. 

[johnnytran]

I don't prioritise my gaming console anymore. In my experience (for my connection) it goes back to DumaOS 3? on the R2 when they added Gaming/Voice and some other options in traffic prioritisation, which sounded like they were made to prioritise Wi-Fi traffic. My cod has never been the same since then 😄. I believe prioritising the UDP gaming ports only yielded the best experience and we don't seem to have that option with SmartQOS, which I guess makes sense cause SmartQOS was designed to do everything for you.

I've also heard the less things you have prioritised the better from people that are networking experts. They personally only prioritise their gaming traffic by IP and source-destination ports.