N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4000 User Manual

Quality of Service (QoS)

Quality of Service (QoS) is an advanced feature that can be used to prioritize some types of traffic ahead of others. The wireless router can provide QoS prioritization over the wireless link and on the Internet connection.

The wireless router supports Wi-Fi Multimedia Quality of Service (WMM QoS) to prioritize wireless voice and video traffic over the wireless link. WMM QoS provides prioritization of wireless data packets from different applications based on four access categories: voice, video, best effort, and background. For an application to receive the benefits of WMM QoS, both it and the client running that application have to have WMM enabled. Legacy applications that do not support WMM, and applications that do not require QoS, are assigned to the best effort category, which receives a lower priority than voice and video.

QoS for Internet Access

To specify prioritization of traffic, you need to add or create a policy for the type of traffic.

1.Select Advanced > QoS Setup. The following screen displays:

2.Click Setup QoS rule. The QoS Priority Rule list displays:

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