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often specify speed as a downlink/uplink pair; for example, 1.5Mbps/284kbps. For this example, you would
enter "284". Alternatively you can test your uplink speed with a service such as www.dslreports.com. Note
however that sites such as DSL Reports, because they do not consider as many network protocol overheads,
will generally note speeds slightly lower than the Measured Uplink Speed or the ISP rated speed.
Connection Type
By default, the router automatically determines whether the underlying connection is an xDSL/Frame-relay
network or some other connection type (such as cable modem or Ethernet), and it displays the result as
Detected xDSL or Frame Relay Network. If you have an unusual network connection in which you are
actually connected via xDSL but for which you configure either "Static" or "DHCP" in the WAN settings, setting
this option to xDSL or Other Frame Relay Network ensures that the router will recognize that it needs to
shape traffic slightly differently in order to give the best performance. Choosing xDSL or Other Frame Relay
Network causes the measured uplink speed to be reported slightly lower than before on such connections,
but gives much better results.
Detected xDSL or Frame Relay Network
When Connection Type is set to Auto-detect, the automatically detected connection type is displayed here.
StreamEngine Setup
Enable StreamEngine
Enable this option for better performance and experience with online games and other interactive applications,
such as VoIP.
Automatic Classification
This option is enabled by default so that your router will automatically determine which programs should have
network priority. For best performance, use the Automatic Classification option to automatically set the priority
for your applications.
Dynamic Fragmentation
This option should be enabled when you have a slow Internet uplink. It helps to reduce the impact that large
low priority network packets can have on more urgent ones by breaking the large packets into several smaller
packets.
Add/Edit StreamEngine Rules
A StreamEngine Rule identifies a specific message flow and assigns a priority to that flow. For most
applications, automatic classification will be adequate, and specific StreamEngine Rules will not be required.
StreamEngine supports overlaps between rules, where more than one rule can match for a specific message
flow. If more than one rule is found to match the rule with the highest priority will be used.
Enable
Specifies whether the entry will be active or inactive.
Name
Create a name for the rule that is meaningful to you.
Priority
The priority of the message flow is entered here -- 0 receives the highest priority (most urgent) and 255
receives the lowest priority (least urgent).
Protocol
The protocol used by the messages.
Local IP Range
The rule applies to a flow of messages whose LAN-side IP address falls within the range set here.
Local Port Range