QoS for House and Donga Located 50m Away

ShortyX on 22/01/2019 - 13:39

Asking for friend. In his house, he has NBN FW with iPrimus using their provided Huawei HG659 router connected to a Netgear Nighthawk R8000 as the main AP. He tried ditching the Huawei but couldn't get it working without it. And yes, I've told him to switch providers.

Anyway, he has a donga 50m from his house where an au pair lives. He ran an ethernet cable and runs as separate AP on the other end but with the limited bandwidth for the internet connection, he'd like to prioritise his Xbox over other devices. He tried using the Nighthawak QoS but the au pair's devices obviously aren't listed as connected devices.

Any solutions?

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Comments

  • geech on 22/01/2019 - 13:47
    +1

    Firstly, what is a donga?

    Secondly - what device does the AP in the donga connect to? If it's connected to the Nighthawk, you should at least see devices connected to it via the AP as clients. That said, I don't think you'd be able to use QoS for them as the Nighthawk isn't doing any routing.

    Ultimately the best solution would be to get the Nighthawk working as the main router

    • abb on 22/01/2019 - 13:49
      +1

      I think "donga" is approximately "granny flat"

    • yippy on 22/01/2019 - 13:49

      donga
      noun
      Southern African , Australian and NZ a steep-sided gully created by soil erosion

      donga
      noun
      (in Papua New Guinea) a house or shelter

    • ShortyX on 22/01/2019 - 13:56

      what is a donga?

      Small temporary house.

      the best solution would be to get the Nighthawk working as the main router

      Thanks

    • djkelly69 on 22/01/2019 - 14:08

      Firstly, what is a donga?

      I would say like a shed someone lives in. ABC has an extensive backstory on the word for anyone interested.

    • Diji1 on 22/01/2019 - 15:20
      +4

      Firstly, what is a donga

      Penis.

      • WreckTangle on 22/01/2019 - 17:25

        This. Like a dead dingo would have.

    • alvian on 22/01/2019 - 15:33
      +1

      A donga is a type of power user.

      If you want QoS control on au pair's router from the Nighthawk then au pair's router needs be wired to the Nighthawk instead of the Huawei.

      Here are two cheap and nasty fixes. Put a 10Mb/s switch/hub between au pair's router and the Huawei. Or try connecting the Huawei and au pair's router via an pair of old spec slow Ethernet over powerline adapters.

  • altomic on 22/01/2019 - 14:31
    +1

    dpnga meant something different when I was a kid.

    so it would be the opposite of "Au Pair in the donga"

  • Baysew on 22/01/2019 - 15:23
    +1

    Anyway, he has a donga 50m from his house where an au pair lives

    Sounds like something Peter Dutton and Barnaby Joyce would be mixed up in.

    Shout out to Barnaby on second baby.

  • Diji1 on 22/01/2019 - 15:26

    Sounds like he got a terrible arrangement of devices.

    Get rid of the Huawei HG659 and use the R8000.

    If you cannot get rid of it because it's a modem then turn off NAT on the Huawei HG659. Sometime this is called enabling bridge mode. Also disable wireless networking on the Huawei unless you want two access points.

    Turn on NAT on the Nighthawk R8000 so it controls the local network.

    Plug any ethernet cables from the Huawei to other devices like the Xbox into the R8000.

    Use one ethernet cable to connect any LAN port from the Huawei into the R8000's WAN (internet) port to connect the R8000 to the internet.

    Now you should have QoS on everything.

    • ShortyX on 22/01/2019 - 15:38

      Thanks. I think I worded the original post wrong. I'm fairly sure he already has the Huawei in bridging mode with a single cable between it and the R8000, and the Huawei's WiFi switched off. I'm also quite sure that all the cables are already connected to the R8000.

      It may be that the au pair's device/s doesn't show in the list of the attached devices for some reason.

      Thanks for your help.

      • alvian on 22/01/2019 - 15:44

        Au pair's devices not showing up is probably due to its router doing double NAT. The cable between au pair's router and the Nighthawk goes from LAN port to LAN port. If it goes from Nighthawk's LAN to au pair's WAN then devices in the donga get hidden behind the second NAT provided by the secondary router.

    • geech on 22/01/2019 - 15:49

      The Huawei isn't likely to be in bridge mode. The NBN box on the wall acts as the "modem" in fixed wireless - and then you connect a router to it to do routing. It sounds like the Huawei is doing the routing in this setup, with the Nighthawk being in AP mode.

      A quick google suggests people have issues with using a non iPrimus device to do the routing. I saw a post or two on Whirlpool where people complained about iPrimus using a VLAN on their network - so if this the case, it's a good reason the Nighthawk "didn't work".

      I'd still suggest trying to get rid of the Huawei, and replacing it with just the Nighthawk. A chat with iPrimus tech support might help solve this (Assuming they offer some kind of limited support for other devices)

      • ShortyX on 22/01/2019 - 16:34

        Thanks. Appreciate the advice!

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