Sorry, again I mispoke. I was referring to the actual port forwarding I had forwarded ports 1-65535 from WAN eth2 to LAN eth5 now I have corrected it to be only the ports I need to gain OPEN nat on several PS4's behind the 192.168.98.2 Netduma R1 router.
Under NAT tab I do have SNAT and DNAT rules but they are but address and interface, no ports involved.
The only reason I chose to use the QoS is to define a bandwidth limit, I have a 100/10Mbps service that I get form 1 cable modem and to split equally I define the eth0 to max of 50/5 and in the past using bufferbloat testing I find the eth1 performs at A+ levels with a little off the topend. TDS is a VDSL 50/10 and will max out at 56/13 but it's buffer is higher. At 48/9.5 its zero added buffer.
Also, I do see it make a difference. This is my home, we have 7 people living here and always online. Youtube streamers, gamers, streaming from netflix, hulu, download server constantly running etc. The main priority is to seperate and conquer everyway possible. Great equipment. seperate IPs for LAN specific, VLANS to shrink broadcast domains. ALL OF IT TO INSRE those udp packets get where they are going while everything else is going on. My benchmark is the latency of my deicated gaming server. If I can have everything else going on around me and latency doesn't budge games are smooth as butter and everyoneis happy. So we config, load it down and game to test.
