User's Manual

Wireless-G Router User's Manual

Quality of Service (QoS) assigns priority levels to improve the performance of high-

bandwidth, latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP and videoconferencing. You

can specify priority levels for particular machines, LAN ports, and applications, and

you can enable/disable special QoS options for wireless links.

QoS: This section contains controls not specifically related to wireless QoS.

Enable/Disable: To enable QoS, select Enable. Otherwise, select Disable. QoS is

disabled by default.

Upstream Bandwidth: In this box you can specify the maximum outgoing

bandwidth that applications can utilize.

• Device Priority: Here you can assign priority to particular machines on your

LAN. Enter a name (this is for your own reference only), enter the machine's

MAC address, and then select its priority from the drop-down list.

• Ethernet Port Priority: These controls allow you to assign priority levels to the

router's four LAN ports. For each port, select the priority and flow control setting.

Priority: Select High or Low in the Priority column. All four LAN ports have

been assigned low priority by default.

Flow Control: If you want the router to control the transmission of data between

network devices, select Enabled. To disable this feature, select Disabled.

• Application Priority: Applications are identified by their port (service) numbers,

so they can be given the desired priority throughout their passage between the

LAN and the WAN.

Optimize Gaming Applications: Select this to automatically allow common

game application ports to have a higher priority. These games include, but are not

limited to: Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Age of Empires, Everquest,

Quake2/Quake3, and Diablo II. The default setting is unselected.

Application Name: Enter a name for the application in the Application Name

box. This is for your reference only.

Priority: Select Low, Medium, High, or Highest to assign a priority to the

application. The default selection is Low.

Specific Port #: Enter the port number for the application.

Wireless QoS: This section contains controls specific to wireless QoS.

WMM Support: Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), formerly known as Wireless Multimedia

Extensions (WME), is a Wi-Fi Alliance certified feature, based on the IEEE 802.11e

standard. This feature provides QoS to wireless networks. It is especially suitable for