Telstra Gateway Max aka Technicolor TG799vac lacks basic Quality of Service

Hi, I have recently moved to a plan that included the Telstra Gateway Max for free, and have also recently opted-in to Telstra Air which I think is wonderful. Problem. These Technicolor TG799vac modem/routers which Telstra is providing (are actually a very high quality, highly finished product), are missing 1 key feature. My plan also came with a free T-Box which I can watch Foxtel on T-Box, Presto, Bigpond TV, Bigpond Movies, and other great content. Except the Gateway Max does not have even basic "QoS" features. QoS is an acronym for Quality of Service. It provides that certain traffic on your local network can be marked as a higher priority than other less important content. For instance. VoIP (Voice over IP) usually has #1 priority, usually followed by video, and then other content like HTTP (normal downloads) and Bit Torrent etc are all just normal quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Multimedia_Extensions "Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), also known as Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), is a Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification, based on the IEEE 802.11e standard." "It provides basic Quality of service (QoS) features to IEEE 802.11 networks." "WMM prioritizes traffic according to four Access Categories (AC) - voice, video, best effort, and background. However, it does not provide guaranteed throughput. It is suitable for well defined applications that require QoS, such as Voice over IP (VoIP) on Wi-Fi phones (VoWLAN)." This WMM standard is a highly important standard for modem routers because if I'm downloading some random large file on one computer which consumes all available bandwidth (speed), my T-Box instantly degrades and becomes unwatchable. My plan comes with unlimited calls anyway plus my mobile comes with unlimited calls on a Telstra competitor so I don't personally have any use for VoIP. My main concern is the lack of Quality of Service for video content. Given we now have Telstra Air I do wonder what happens when a guest user consumes all available bandwidth (speed) is that going to affect my T-Box negatively? I understand there is QoS built into Telstra Air such that the guest user cannot hog all your bandwidth (preference is given to the host customer over the guest customer) however that's as far as QoS goes with Telstra. I would urge Telstra to pass this post to their development team for consideration, because as it stands the only way for people to get QoS is to buy other non-Telstra modem routers. I can still probably plug Telstras Gateway Max into another modem router that does support QoS which is what I intend to do to solve the problem, but if they could look at addressing this issue the Gateway Max would be a very ideal, very professional modem router that I could recommend to everybody and not bother with the hassle of buying other non-Telstra modem routers.

Telstra Air has built in QoS, there is a specific speed threshold that they can't pass. If your internet speed is too low it won't allow allow fast access to clients.
The real truth is all those features are available on your modem but have been disabled by Telstra's firmware, Telstra wants to manage all of these areas so sadly there is nothing we can do

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