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Can QoS help if just on LAN and one router?

jasonww04
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Is there a point to using QoS if it is just on the switches and router at one site? We want to prioritize video conferencing but since I will never have control over the remote end of the connection (or any point in between), can QoS help me at all?

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Joseph W. Doherty
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It may, especially for router egress, assuming that's a principle bottleneck.

However, if the far side doesn't support any QoS, especially on their router egress (also assuming that's a principle bottleneck), you may lose out on much that QoS might help for ingress traffic to your router.

I have a 50Mbps connection and never come close to maxing it out. If I don't max out the internet connection, QoS won't really help me, will it?

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If you truly never max out, as in packets never queue on an interface, QoS wouldn't make a difference.

If you're measuring "maxing out" by typical link utilization, i.e. 100%, you generally don't know whether the foregoing is true or not.

Even if you do have transient congestion, it may not be adverse to your applications.  When QoS may "help" is when there's congestion that's adverse to your applications.

How do I check for packets queueing on an interface? Is it under show interface x?

Yes, usually.

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