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High Performance Wireless-N Router
Linksys E3000
Chapter 3: Advanced Configuration
Applications and Gaming > QoS
Quality of Service (QoS) is a method that assigns priority
to specific types of network traffic, which often are
demanding, real-time applications, such as gaming,
videoconferencing, video streaming, and Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony . QoS helps to ensure
optimal performance for these types of uses .
Applications and Gaming > QoS
QoS
Wireless
WMM Support
Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) is a wireless
Quality of Service feature that improves quality for audio,
video, and voice applications by prioritizing wireless
traffic . To use this feature, the wireless client devices in
your network must support Wireless WMM . If you would
like to disable this feature, select
Disabled
. Otherwise,
keep the default,
Enabled
.
No Acknowledgement
If you want to disable the
Router’s Acknowledgement feature, so the Router will not
re-send data if an error occurs, select
Enabled
. Otherwise,
keep the default,
Disabled
.
Internet Access Priority
In this section, you can set the bandwidth priority for a
variety of applications and devices . There are four levels
of priority; High, Medium, Normal, or Low . When you set
priority, do not set all applications to High, because this will
defeat the purpose of allocating the available bandwidth .
If you want to select below normal bandwidth, select Low .
Depending on the application, a few attempts may be
needed to set the appropriate bandwidth priority .
Enabled/Disabled
To use the QoS policies you set, select
Enabled
. Otherwise, select
Disabled
.
Category
Select one of the following categories:
Applications
,
Online Games
,
MAC Address
, or
Voice Device
. Proceed
to the instructions for your selection .
Summary
This lists the QoS entries you have created for your
applications and devices . Refer to ,
for more
information .
Applications
Applications
Select the appropriate application . If you
select Add a New Application, follow the instructions in
the
Add a New Application
section .
Priority
Select the appropriate priority:
High
,
Medium
(Recommended)
,
Normal
, or
Low
.
Click
Apply
to save your changes . Your new entry will
appear in the Summary list .
Add a New Application
Add a New Application
Enter a Name
Enter a name for this application .
Port Range
Enter the port range that the application will
be using . For example, if you want to allocate bandwidth
for FTP, you can enter 21-21 . If you need services for an
application that uses from 1000 to 1250, you enter 1000-
1250 as your settings . You can have up to three ranges
to define for this bandwidth allocation . Port numbers
can range from 1 to 65535 . Check your application’s
documentation for details on the service ports used .
Select the protocol
TCP
or
UDP,
or select
Both
.
Priority
Select the appropriate priority:
High
,
Medium
(Recommended)
,
Normal
, or
Low
.
Click
Apply
to save your changes . Your new entry will
appear in the Summary list .
