Chapter 1 Introducing the PLA-407

interference from the electrical devices so that it does not affect the Powerline network. This is shown in the following figure.

Figure 2 Noise Filter on PLA-407

Noise Filter

Home Appliances

Powerline Network

This setup maximizes the PLA-407’s performance and ensures that the Powerline network is stable. This benefits users who are into gaming or those watching streaming media from the Internet. The internal noise filter is enabled by default.

1.1.4 Quality of Service

Additionally, the Quality of Service (QoS) feature of the PLA-407 (refer to Section

5.6on page 43) prioritizes voice, video and data traffic (such as web browsing, file transfer and e-mail). The figure below illustrates the advantage of implementing QoS.

Figure 3 QoS on PLA-407

Without QoS

 

All sorts

Equal Priority

 

of traffic

 

 

 

 

 

With QoS

Voice

High Priority

 

 

Video

 

 

Data

Low Priority

 

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