User's Guide

DL-WRX36 Router User Guide
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5.6 QoS
Quality of Service (QoS) is a feature to manage Internet bandwidth efficiently. Some applications require more bandwidth than others to function
properly, and QoS allows you to ensure that sufficient bandwidth is available. Maximum bandwidth can be set for specified devices on the
network, ensuring that sufficient bandwidth is available for others – or priority numbering can be used to prioritize devices on the network for
bandwidth. QoS can improve performance for applications such as gaming or entertainment streaming.
5.6.1 Airtime Fairness
General > QoS > Airtime Fairness
Airtime Fairness is a feature that boost the overall network performance by sacrifice a little bit of network time on your slowest devices. Note:
The relatively “slow” Wi-Fi speed devices can be slow from either long physical distance, weak signal strength, or simply being a legacy device
with older technology.
When your router is connected to a large number of wireless clients at the same time, enabling Airtime Fairness can better balance bandwidth
allocation between devices, avoid bandwidth waste and slow devices slow down the entire network. In addition, if some of your devices (such
as mobile phones) are often far away from the router and the signal is not good, you should also enable Airtime Fairness to ensure the network
quality of other devices.