> QoS = Quality of Service.
>
> QoS is something that sets packet priorities. Obviously the ones for adverts
> are higher and all your non-important stuff gets put to the back. QoS also
> reserves bandwidth just in case something with high priority might come along,
> so you get ads faster than downloads and ads are the first thing to show up on
> the page when it starts rendering.
>
> Not that most routers pass QoS info through, some don't even forward that data,
> so all you do is introduce latency by spending time flagging packets before they
> go to ethernet. The whole shit is so fucking useless and broken and designed to
> work against the consumer, it pisses me off. Luckily MS was nice enough to
> enable that shit by default on all Windows installs.
>
> On an internal network QoS may be put to some good uses, but unless you're a
> business, on the internet QoS is just used to shun your data. VoIP and shit
> like that work fine without it, and the people that warn you to use it and shit
> are on crack.
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