N900 QoS is not prioitizing traffic, it is severly restricting it

Hmmm.  I don’t see that at all.

I just set up a low prioritization rule on Port 80 (Web), but it didn’t effect any results from www.speedtest.net at all until I started an FTP upload to my webserver.

I added a high priority rule for FTP.

Then the FTP took more bandwidth, and the Speedtest result went almost to 0.

… are you sure you have the rules configured correctly?

By the way, you need to keep in mind that the QoS rules affect UPLOAD more than DOWNLOAD.