<p>I'm talking about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service</a>. With streaming stackoverflow podcasts and downloading the lastest updates to ubuntu, I would like to have QoS working so I can use stackoverflow without my http connections timing out or taking forever.</p>

<p>I'm using an iConnect 624 ADSL modem which has QoS built-in but I can't seem to get it to work. Is it even possible to control the downstream (ie. from ISP to your modem)?</p>

[{'answer_id': 4567, 'author': 'Eric Haskins', 'author_id': 100, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/100', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I don\'t know if this will help you, but I\'ve never been a fan of using the ISP provided box directly. Personally I use a <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&amp;DEPA=0&amp;Description=wrt54gl&amp;x=0&amp;y=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Linksys wrt54gl</a>, with <a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DD-wrt</a>, behind(DMZ) my ISP provided box.</p>\n\n<p>DD-wrt has excellent QoS management.</p>\n\n<p>Sorry I can\'t be more help with your existing hardware. </p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 585096, 'author': 'Fernando Miguélez', 'author_id': 34880, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/34880', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You just need the <a href="http://www.arvanta.net/~mps/linux-tc.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">tc command</a> to handle the QoS on Linux boxen. However I wouldn\'t expect that much from it because of the results I obtained and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/583532/software-router-traffic-monitoring/583987#583987">detailed here</a>.</p>\n'}]
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