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Shaping programs with wide port ranges

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    TauCeti
    last edited by Mar 20, 2017, 10:02 PM

    So I have been diligently adding programs to my firewall floating rules to put them neatly into the appropriate queues in the traffic shaper.

    Then I tried adding Blizzard's Overwatch. According to this:
    https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/300479

    UDP port range: 12000-64000. Seriously :o? But it turns out that yes, seriously >:(.  Primary game data is sent using this range. I added all of the other ports to my firewall rules but the high priority Games queue remained pretty quiet and the low priority Default queue was pushing plenty of data.

    How are you supposed to shape something like this? Assigning a range that wide is just obviously silly.

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      Harvy66
      last edited by Mar 21, 2017, 1:19 AM

      I used DSCP to mark all traffic from Overwatch in Windows, then

      gpedit.msc

      When I didn't use tagging, it only assigned the queue on the LAN side, but not the WAN. Don't forget to enable QoS on your interface in Windows.

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        TauCeti
        last edited by Mar 22, 2017, 9:20 PM

        Many thanks Harvy66! That's a very elegant solution  :)

        I did a quick test at work and had windows marking packets no problem. But then when implementing it I hit two snags:

        1. One of the client machines is Windows 10 Home which does not have group policy editor. But installing it apparently works (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqk3vtTYfzY for other people's reference).

        2. Windows will only apply the DSCP marks when connected to a domain  >:(
          There are solutions on the net to address this, with the most popular one appearing to be:
          https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2733528/policy-based-qos-not-working-in-windows-7-clients

        This also is mentioned in a few spots as a solution:
        https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb964018(v=office.12).aspx

        Neither worked for:
        Windows 7 Pro Laptop (which does work when connected to my work domain)
        Windows 10 Home + gpedit install

        A severfault on the issue has someone with two machines, same settings, different results:
        https://serverfault.com/questions/769843/cannot-set-dscp-on-windows-10-pro-via-group-policy

        Anyone here managed to get around this problem?

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          Harvy66
          last edited by Mar 23, 2017, 4:58 PM

          I have Win10 Pro and I never directly configured anything about domains. I do have a homegroup setup and the current network is firewalled as "private".

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