User's Manual

Chapter 6: Using Advanced Setup
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Configuring Quality of Service
Quality of Service (QoS) helps guarantee upstream bandwidth for
applications that require fast and dependable throughput. For
example, QoS can slow down a photo upload so a phone call can
proceed without garbling, and/or a gamer can enjoy faster
response time.
With QoS you can assign each of the four ETHERNET ports and
the wireless port a priority of High, Medium or Standard. High
priority ports together share a guaranteed percentage of upstream
bandwidth, typically 70%. Medium priority ports share a lower
guaranteed percentage, typically 20%. Standard priority ports share
the remaining upstream bandwidth that is guaranteed to them. If
ports aren’t using their guaranteed bandwidth, the excess
bandwidth becomes available to other ports in order of priority.
For VoIP, you normally assign a High Priority QoS port. For a
gaming device, you may want to assign a High or Medium priority.
For ports used for web browsing, normally you use Standard
priority.
Windows users normally set up QoS by using the Install Assistant
CD that comes with the X6v.To configure Quality of Service on
the Advanced Setup page instead, click QoS. For a help message,
select the Click here
link in the first paragraph.