What exectly is QOS and Dynamic QOS: Should You Use it?

What exactly is Quality of Service Dynamic QoS? If you can accurately answer… I’m not sure why you’re reading this. Perhaps you’ve come to ask the follow-up question, “What is Dynamic QOS?” Perhaps you’d like to know what QOS settings to utilize. Perhaps I’m circling without getting to the topic, so let’s get started. Dynamic QoS is an abbreviation for Quality of Service.

Everything from the greatest Wi-Fi routers to good routers under $100 create better networks with a robust QoS, which ensures that everything fighting for the Internet’s full attention is distributed evenly (or connection).

Dynamic QoS, on the other hand, can simply be defined as the network’s optimum settings for you. As a result of the ‘dynamic’ element, it updates the QoS parameters as it deems fit. It considers the type of device and assigns different upload and download bandwidths to each user or device based on their needs.

This means that, with the proper Dynamic QoS settings, a streaming video should not be interrupted by a single torrent download (unless you’re experiencing throttling issues from your Internet Service Provider), which can run in the background, rather than sucking the life out of everyone else’s video calls, images on a webpage, email attachment uploading, and so on. Let us go a little deeper now that we have this insight.

What is the point of QoS?

Dynamic QoS is fundamentally a traffic shaping mechanism. Each device and service on a network – say, your home network, which includes phones, tablets, laptops, and possibly even a smart fridge or LED – is assigned a priority level.

This priority defines how much bandwidth each of these ‘users’ should be given to ensure smooth operation.
Without such a system, priorities may be mismanaged, and critical data may be lost.

A torrent client download can continue even if the speed or connection drops. In technical terms, any bits lost in transit are resent between the client and the server through a verification procedure until the entire package has been completely delivered from one end and completely received on the other end.

In contrast, anything that is reliant on streaming glitches or delays when the data transfer is halted (a Soundcloud audio, a Skype video call, any online game, or a Netflix binge session). The Dynamic QoS system recognizes each stream of data based on its type and prioritizes Wi-Fi in such a way that it improves real-time user experience.

As a result, Dynamic QoS is often referred to as bandwidth control or device/app priority. The gatekeeper is in charge of managing the Internet bandwidth that is being used.

How is this dealt with? You can identify traffic by type (and assign a High/Medium/Low priority), specific applications (and do the same), specific ports for services or applications (most applications, such as torrenting, will guide you on how to do this), or assign priority to specific devices using an IP or MAC address. However, there is a glaring issue here.

Not every device has a single or defined level of priority. There are different apps on each device, which means that each device has things that must be prioritized, and then all of the devices must be examined together, not taking into account the fact that the device/application mix may vary at any time, possibly even constantly.

This means that the Dynamic QoS settings would need to be constantly updated by logging into the family router, having a detailed knowledge of the specific details of Internet protocols, routers, your ISP’s limits (?! ), and an exact combination of this knowledge, otherwise, fiddling around might make your network worse.

This last point may be why some websites advise you to disable QoS settings entirely.

However, there is a far easier and more elegant way.

Dynamic QoS: ensuring everyone’s happiness

Netgear’s QoS ‘game’ is stronger than someone scurrying around in the metaphorical dark, attempting to strike the proper balance at all times.

Dynamic QoS is device-aware and provides bandwidth dynamically. You may still manually enter the throughput, but there is also a built-in speed test that assesses internet performance in routers of the R7500, R7800, R8000, and R8500 Nighthawk models.

From there, an Attached Devices tab in Settings displays all of the information you’d need at any given time: the name of each device, its connection type, priority, and the speed assigned based on that priority.

You can also go to Access Control and block specific devices or change devices based on your requirements (or correct if the Type is misstated). Dynamic QoS also has the capability of prioritizing communication services, which present a unique difficulty (or opportunity) in that they use low bandwidth while also requiring low latency and functioning differently on different connections (Ethernet vs. Wi-Fi). When these applications are active, they are given higher priority.

There are even mobile apps for both Android and iOS devices, as well as the ability to view Statistics in real-time!

Conclusion

QoS and Dynamic QoS technologies are new solutions to modern issues. Deploying these allows homes to remain stress-free, with no one yelling at the other to turn off their downloads, no signal drops on video conversations, and no hesitation before giving a guest the Wi-Fi password.