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XAV101v2 Powerline AV 200 Adapter User Manual
Quality of Service (QoS)
On the Advanced Settings tab on the Powerline Utility, click the QoS (Quality of Service)
arrow to help you prioritize your Powerline network traffic.
By default, all types of traffic on the Powerline network are assigned the same priority. For
most applica
tions, this works fine. However, there are situations where performance
improves if you assign a higher priority to certain types of traffic, such as multimedia files.
Figure 4.
Prioritizing by General Application Type
If your network traffic is a mix of multimedia and document or database traffic, you might want
to give priority to a particular traffic type. If it is important that your multimedia playback is
smooth, even while document files are being transferred over the network, then give priority
to multimedia traffic. Conversely, if it is more important for your network to be responsive to
database applications, give priority to this type of application over multimedia applications.
The Powerline adapter supports the following:
• MAC add
ress
• IP port
• VLAN t
ags
• T
oS bits (Type of Service routing)