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If your router+ap supports OpenWRT you can reflash and have best of breed QoS up and running in a few clicks via the Luci web interface that IMO is vastly super

If your router+ap supports OpenWRT you can reflash and have best of breed QoS up and running in a few clicks via the Luci web interface that IMO is vastly superior to the goofy web UIs that come on SOHO routers. Bonus is OpenWRT also seems to be much more stable than manufacturer hardware as long as your hardware is well supported. Plus you don't have to worry about your manufacturer no longer supporting firmware on your model and OpenWRT is much faster to respond to the occasional security issue, etc. OpenWRT has gotten some flak over the years by leaving devices behind when they no longer have enough flash and/or RAM. That said OpenWRT is likely going to support your hardware longer than the manufacturer will.

dont__panic 4y ago
I have a router similar to the router in the linked post, and OpenWRT was a mess on there. Turns out that my router was saddled with a crappy processor downgrade at some point after initial release, and I got one of the crap CPUs. OpenWRT didn't even support the CPU by default, and when I managed to get OpenWRT on there, I had serious QoS problems because the CPU wasn't up to snuff. I liked OpenWRT a lot but it was a really frustrating experience.
- EricE 4y ago
  to be fair, the real problem was the crappy hardware you tried to run it on - not OpenWRT :p