Going to reset and reprogram my router need advice from some of you studs

[el tardo]

[Robotron2k84]

It’s neither better to have a static IP or not. Incoming advertised services depend on it, however. Or, more accurately they depend on a valid reverse DNS entry, that validates the IP resolves the same way forward and backwards. So, unless you are hosting your own mail or http servers, and therefore accepting incoming connections, no need for static. DMZ is more of the same, just masquerading one of your WAN statics bidirectionally to one of your LAN hosts, across the firewall for select ports.

As an aside, a lot of IPv6 deployments send you a /64 prefix, possibly letting you have a metric craptonne of virtually unchanging IPs. DNS still matters, though, and so does v6 carrier NAT and policy blacklists.

So, assuming you just want standard outbound internet access, no DMZ or static’s required.

[el tardo]

[SanDiego619]

I used to care about that stuff a lot. Then I became lazy and internet speeds increased substantially. Now I just use the modem/router from my ISP and don't really mess with it much. I guess it depends on your internet service though. I am already getting 1000mbps so I don't really need to tweak it.

[Robotron2k84]

For just doing gaming, you don’t need statics. What might make throughput a little faster is putting the gaming hosts in a DMZ, as the firewall only has to do IP substitution instead of substitution AND port mapping. Even if it might save a few CPU cycles per packet, it’s not worth the security risk, and having the firewall do packet inspection is a good thing.

If you’re wired then there is really nothing to do. Most router configuration questions revolve around radio settings for wireless.

The switch inside your router is faster than any wireless access, as it can run at full gig speeds all the time.

If you are talking about prioritizing certain traffic over other types of traffic, that’s QOS, and it will likely slow everything down a little to make use of it. Only use QOS if you start having problems when all the devices are running at once. If it works and no issues, don’t fix what ain’t broke.

[ibanezfoo]

On your WAN or LAN? On your LAN it doesn't matter except for servers and printers.

Unless you have a specific reason to use it, leave it off.

Besides me googling videos and stuff which I have just want some help on setting up my router in the best way possible to maximize my speed as I have a lot of devices in the house

Enable QoS but set your maximum bandwidth to 10% less than what you actually have for upload and download. If you have more options for streaming, particular machines, etc you can play with those settings. This will help with buffer bloat.

You can test your results here

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

For most people 99% of the time the modern routers are fine to just leave the defaults. Really the only time you are going to notice this is playing FPS type games.

[Robotron2k84]

[ibanezfoo]

Nobody is going to be using advanced QoS/CoS on these small routers and they are plenty powerful enough to support it. They don't even have a lot of options to play with. Some is helpful but less is more in a lot of cases.

My Cisco stuff at work we have pages and pages of CoS config for voip phones, on prem webex, accelerators, etc etc.... but they are 10's of thousands of dollars.

[Robotron2k84]

Except that your fancy Cisco gear has dedicated processors, or a much faster GpCPU for these types of operations.

The speed of a consumer router is that of a ‘90s Pentium, and about half of the memory access speed.

I’ve played around with QOS plenty on the Linux kernel and on these routers that all use the 2.6 branch.

Best to leave it off, as QOS is a mitigation strategy (i.e. a bandaid) for the problem of overconsumption of bandwidth. It punishes all traffic, just not equally. To use it simply for the queueing engine to combat buffer bloat is secondary to its purpose and can cause problems down the line.

If there is no overconsumption, you are making things worse by enabling it, IMHO.