Comments on: QOS when receive traffic is more than transmit http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/qos-when-receive-traffic-is-more-than-transmit/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:45:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: elhammster http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/qos-when-receive-traffic-is-more-than-transmit/#comment-67645 elhammster Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:03:36 +0000 #comment-67645 While you can’t prioritize incoming traffic without cooperation from your ISP, you can do some crude QOS’ing by restricting how much bandwidth you will allow the other incoming protocols to have.

If you think your normal Webex traffic is 2Mb, then you would allow Webex to occupy 2Mb of the pipe which leaves 6Mb for other protocols. Drop the packets at your router which exceed 6Mb for the other protocols. TCP/IP will automatically slow down the requests for more packets to try and ensure that the requester receives all packets.

I have used this method when I had a pipe that was only 512kbps to try and guarantee my video conference data. As I said, this is a crude method and not very accurate, but it can help if you need to ensure that at least some b/w is available for other protocols.

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