kylerlittle wrote:But then the son would be bothered by playing GTA 5 online, lol. I think it's great for some, but if I don't actually enable QOS, is it sharing internet by default or is it giving priority to someone without my permission? I've always wondered that.
I think your missing the point... When sharing your broadband across many devices used by many people someone is always going to be 'bothered' because someone is going to run into issues. The idea of QOS is to give priority to services that are more important than those that are not.
QOS only really kicks in when it needs to, so if 'the son' was playing GTA 5 online and a VoIP call comes in his gameplay might not cause any issues bandwidth wise, if it does then QOS kicks in and VoIP traffic becomes a priority, that doesn't mean 'the son' can't continue to play GTA 5 or that he would even notice a difference in some cases.