NETGEAR HDX101 manual How to Prioritize Traffic on the Powerline Network

HDX101 Powerline HD Ethernet Adapter User Guide

5.Click the Set All Devices button.

6.Select the Main tab and click the Scan button. Wait for the new Powerline HD Ethernet adapter to be listed. The new device can be identified from its MAC address and no check mark will be displayed in the Device Name column for that device..

7.Click on the checkbox for the new device to display a check mark.

8.If desired, change the device name, by clicking the Rename button and typing a descriptive name.

9.Select the Security tab.

10.Re-enter your private network ID in the Network ID text box.

11.Click the Set All Devices button. The utility should display a pop-up window indicating that the operation was successful.

12.Select the Main tab and click the Scan button. Check that all devices are detected with you private network ID.

How to Prioritize Traffic on the Powerline Network

By default, all types of traffic on the Powerline network are assigned the same priority. For most applications, this setting is adequate. However, there are situations where it is desirable to assign a higher priority to certain types of traffic, such as multimedia files.

How to Prioritize Traffic by General Application Type

If your network traffic is a mix of multimedia and document/database traffic you may 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, you may want to give priority to multimedia traffic. Conversely, if it is more important for your network to be responsive to database applications, you may want to give priority to this type of application over multimedia applications.

In general, multimedia applications use UDP (User Datagram Protocol) for data transfer. For such applications, the on-time arrival of the data is more important than the data itself. If a packet cannot be transferred in time, it will be dropped. For applications where the integrity of the data takes precedence over the data timing, such as database applications, TCP (Tranmission Control Protocol) is used for data transfer. The easiest way to give priority to multimedia traffic, is to assign high priority to UDP transfers. To give priority to database applications, assign high priority to TCP transfers.

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