Enable Quality of Service, Name, Priority

Enable Quality of Service

This option is disabled by default. Enable it for better performance and experience with 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.

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.

Automatic Uplink Speed

When enabled, this option causes the router to automatically measure the useful uplink bandwidth each time the WAN interface is re-established (after a reboot, for example).

Measured Uplink Speed

This is the uplink speed measured when the WAN interface was last re-established. The value may be lower than that reported by your ISP as it does not include all of the network protocol overheads associated with your ISP's network. Typically, this figure will be between 87% and 91% of the stated uplink speed for xDSL connections and around 5 kbps lower for cable network connections.

Uplink Speed

If Automatic Uplink Speed is disabled, this options allows you to set the uplink speed manually. Uplink speed is the speed at which data can be transferred from the router to your ISP. This is determined by your ISP. ISPs often specify speed as a downlink/uplink pair; for example, 1.5Mbits/284Kbits. 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.

Add/Edit Quality of Service Rule

Automatic classification will be adequate for most applications, and specific Quality of Service Rules will not be required. A Quality of Service Rule identifies a specific message flow and assigns a priority to that flow.

Enable

Each entry in Quality of Service Rules List can be active (enabled) or inactive (disabled)

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.

Source IP Range

The rule applies to a flow of messages whose LAN-side IP address falls within the range set here.

Source Port Range

The rule applies to a flow of messages whose LAN-side port number is within the range set here.

Destination IP Range

2 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20850 Tel: 301.309.8500 Fax: 301.309.8851