GoKawiilRouter QoS and SQM features explained for home network traffic prioritization
Quality of Service (QoS) is a router setting that prioritizes certain types of internet traffic, such as video calls and online gaming, over less time-sensitive data like email. A more advanced version, Smart Queue Management (SQM), uses traffic shaping and scheduling to reduce lag caused by congested data queues, a problem known as bufferbloat. SQM requires more processing power, so it's typically found on high-performance gaming routers or Eero mesh systems rather than standard models.