I often play online video games and latency is a must.
I've set Untangle v13 to:
"Bypass rules" and "QoS rules" to the ports i require and set the priority to "Very high", just like a VoIP phone.
I've set my "WAN Bandwidth" to 90%" of my connection.
From what i understand if i "bypass" the traffic i can improve the latency since the traffic isn't being processed by any of Untangles filtering apps?
So...
I begin a download using my browser over port 443(set to "Medium" in Bandwidth Control), so far my game latency is fine and seems to be unaffected.
Now i begin the same download, but instead of using my browser i use a windows application called Internet Download Manager (which oddly enough Untangle seems to identify it as IDM), i set it to download 8 streams at once per file, then my latency in my game sky rockets and my gaming experience is affected.
I guess its the same theory behind torrenting, torrents can have 1000's of sessions happening at the same time, on a consumer router a typical torrent client could cripple it, even if you cap the speed of the torrent at the router level, its still requesting all those sessions and the rest of the traffic is stalled.
Anyway, I can just set IDM to use 1 stream, problem solved, but is this possible to solve on Untangle? there are people on my network who also use IDM.
Is there anything i'm missing in my configuration or some method i can use to prevent a application flooding so many streams at once?