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Prioritizing the Network Traffic
Use the QoS screen to prioritize your traffic through the device. QoS requirements are
different for various data types such as streaming video or music, voice and raw data.
To provide higher QoS for streaming data, priority levels can be set using tags at the
beginning of data frames.
The QoS level settings are: CAP3: Highest CAP2: Medium and CAP1: Lowest.
• IGMP management packets: (Default to CAP3) – Sets the channel
access priority for IGMP group management frames.
• Unicast packets: (Default to CAP1) – Sets the default channel
access priority for Unicast frames not matching any other
classification or mapping.
• IGMP managed multicast stream: (Default to CAP2) – Sets the
default channel access priority for stream data belonging to a
snooped IGMP multicast group.
• Other multicast or Broadcast packets: (Default to CAP3) – Sets the
default CAP for multicast frames not in a snooped group and for
broadcast frames.
QoS Screen