QoS and work VPN

[Pznuts]

Both my wife and I work from home. Would like to know if anyone has setup QoS on their routers to increase reliability/speed when connecting to work VPN? If so, have you seen any improvement and any tips you can share? I went through the menu and setup the pre-loaded "VPN" to highest priority and removed the other pre-loaded defaults as I do not game online much. Not sure if that was the correct setting to change or if I have to explicitly declare the actual name of the VPN that is provided on our work systems in the netgear QoS menu. Any help is appreciated.

[Simon0]

For VPN, it is also preferable to do using hardware, that way even your smartphones/pads/etc.. can get on VPN protected sites without installing additional software on them.

Some companies has restrictions on doing this when working from home though... security reasons perhaps... Anyhow, I tend to like using a router with VPN built-in connected to another router or server w/ VPN built in. My remote desktops are further encrypted by another layer, so it's not much of a security risk.. for me at least...

I find QoS works better when the router themselves are VPN capable... VPN tend to be very CPU intensive as well... causing latency & responsiveness issues in high speed environments, especially when two or more layers of encryption are used.

good luck...

[Simon0]

Forgot to answer your issue more precisely.

Most routers have VPN pass-thru, however QoS is hit and miss, I've gotten much success in QoS using a broadcom based tomato router. Most consumer routers don't do it correctly.

Nowadays, I've retired it and prefer using an x86-based router w/ built-in VPN/QoS/hardware encryption... which does the packet prioritization MUCH more smoothly.

Netgear, I believe also has a line of small business prosafe routers with VPN, if you prefer Netgear gear.

[Pznuts]

That makes sense, I was hoping consumer-grade routers that used QoS were able to actually separate and prioritize traffic accordingly finally. Sounds like SMB routers may be the way to go if I want that true functionality.