Nighthawk AC1750 Smart WiFi Router

Prioritize Internet Traffic with Quality of Service

You can use Quality of Service (QoS) to assign a high priority to gaming and streaming video from the Internet.

Downstream QoS (video streaming)

Upstream QoS (gaming)

Figure 6. You can prioritize downstream traffic, upstream traffic, or both

Optimize Internet Gaming with Upstream QoS

Upstream Quality of Service (QoS) assigns a high priority to Internet traffic from your Xbox gaming system.

High priority traffic

Internet

Best effort traffic

Figure 7. Upstream QoS assigns high priority to gaming traffic from your Xbox

NETGEAR recommends that only gamers enable the Upstream QoS feature. If you do not game and you turn on this feature, some applications might not perform as well as usual.

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NETGEAR R6700 user manual Prioritize Internet Traffic with Quality of Service, Optimize Internet Gaming with Upstream QoS