Linksys WRT610N Applications and Gaming DMZ, Applications and Gaming QoS, QoS Quality of Service

Chapter 3

Advanced Configuration

Applications and Gaming > DMZ

The DMZ feature allows one network computer to be exposed to the Internet for use of a special-purpose service such as Internet gaming or videoconferencing. DMZ hosting forwards all the ports at the same time to one PC. The Port Forward feature is more secure because it only opens the ports you want to have opened, while DMZ hosting opens all the ports of one computer, exposing the computer to the Internet.

Applications and Gaming > DMZ

DMZ

Any PC whose port is being forwarded should have its DHCP client function disabled and have a new static IP address assigned to it because its IP address may change when using the DHCP function.

To allow PCs on the Internet to access a local PC, select Enabled. Then, select Any IP Address or manually enter a specific source IP address of the computer you want to allow access from the Internet. Then, enter your local PC’s IP address or MAC address that you want to allow access to. This feature is disabled by default.

Click Save Settings to apply your changes, or click Cancel Changes to cancel your changes.

Applications and Gaming > QoS

Quality of Service (QoS) ensures better service to high-priority types of network traffic, which may involve demanding, real-time applications, such as videoconferencing.

Applications and Gaming > QoS

QoS (Quality of Service)

Wireless

Wireless WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia)  WMM is a wireless Quality of Service feature that improves quality for audio, video, and voice applications by prioritizing wireless traffic. To use this feature, your wireless client devices in your network must support Wireless WMM. If you would like to disable this feature, select Disabled. Otherwise, keep the default, Enabled.

No Acknowledgement  If you want to disable the Router’s Acknowledgement feature, so the Router will not re-send data if an error occurs, select Enabled. Otherwise, keep the default, Disabled.

Internet Access Priority

In this section, you can set the bandwidth priority for a variety of applications and devices. There are four levels of priority; High, Medium, Normal, or Low. When you set priority, do not set all applications to High, because this will defeat the purpose of allocating the available bandwidth. If you want to select below normal bandwidth, select Low. Depending on the application, a few attempts may be needed to set the appropriate bandwidth priority.

Enabled/Disabled  To use the QoS policies you set, select Enabled. Otherwise, select Disabled.

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