Cisco Systems WRT54G2 manual Applications and Gaming QoS, Administration Management, Wireless QoS

Chapter 3

Advanced Configuration

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.

There are three types of QoS available: Device Priority, Ethernet Port Priority, and Application Priority.

QoS

Enable/Disable  To enable QoS, select Enable. Otherwise, select Disable. QoS is disabled by default.

Upstream Bandwidth  Select Auto or Manual from the drop-down menu. Manual allows you to specify the maximum outgoing bandwidth that applications can utilize.

Applications and Gaming > QoS

Device Priority

Enter the name of your network device in the Device name field, enter its MAC Address, and then select its priority from the drop-down menu.

Ethernet Port Priority

Ethernet Port Priority QoS allows you to prioritize performance for the Router’s four ports, LAN Ports 1-4. For each port, select the priority and flow control setting.

Priority  Select High or Low in the Priority column. The Router’s four ports have been assigned low priority by default.

Flow Control  If you want the Router to control the transmission of data between network devices, select Enabled. To disable this feature, select Disabled. Ethernet Port Priority QoS does not require support from your ISP because the prioritized ports (LAN ports 1-4) are in your network. This feature is enabled by default.

Application Priority

Application Priority QoS manages information as it is transmitted and received. Depending on the settings of the QoS screen, this feature will assign information a high or low priority for the applications that you specify.

Optimize Gaming Applications  Select this to automatically allow common game application ports to have a higher priority. These games include, but are not limited to: Counter-Strike,Half-Life,Age of Empires, EverQuest, Quake2/Quake3, and Diablo II. The default setting is unselected.

Application Name  Enter the name you wish to give the application in the Application Name field.

Priority  Select High or Low to assign priority to the application. The default selection is Low.

Specific Port #  Enter the port number for the application.

Wireless QoS

WMM Support  Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), formerly known as Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), is a Wi-Fi Alliance certified feature, based on the IEEE 802.11e standard. This feature provides QoS to wireless networks. It is especially suitable for voice, music and video applications; for example, Voice over IP (VoIP), video streaming, and interactive gaming. If you have other devices on your wireless network that support WMM, select Enabled. Otherwise, keep the default, Disabled.

No Acknowledgement  This feature prevents the Router from re-sending data if an error occurs. To use this feature, select Enabled. Otherwise, keep the default, Disabled.

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

Administration > Management

The Administration > Management screen allows the network’s administrator to manage specific Router functions for access and security.

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