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More about: Band Width Management and Prioritization
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More about: Band Width Management and
Prioritization
Integrated bandwidth management ensures high speech quality for
telephone calls over the Internet with the FRITZ!Box.
The FRITZ!Box also offers a prioritization function that can be used to di-
vide network applications and network devices into three different cate-
gories. The category assigned determines whether an application or de-
vice is treated with higher or lower priority when it accesses the Internet.
6.1
Band Width Management
The FRITZ!Box is equipped with integrated bandwidth man-
agement. This function ensures that the speech quality dur-
ing telephone calls over the Internet is not reduced by surfing
activity. The FRITZ!Box adjusts all uploads and downloads to
the currently available bandwidth. Because the FRITZ!Box al-
so places a higher priority on Internet telephony connections
over Internet data connections, unwelcome interference is
largely avoided. Just as for any other analog call, once Inter-
net telephony transmission capacity has been reached, re-
mote partners receive a busy signal.
6.2
The Prioritization of Network Applications and Network Devices
Prioritization is a function you can use to specify that network
applications and network devices be treated with higher or
lower priority when they access the Internet connection. For
example, you may wish to ensure that applications like Inter-
net telephony, IPTV and video on demand are always treated
with higher priority than other applications. You can also
specify that file-sharing applications like eMule and BitTor-
rent always have to wait behind online games.
The following algorithm is used in the FRITZ!Box to send data
packets according to their prioritization:
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Change in the order in which packets are sent to the In-
ternet (upstream direction)
The order of the packets the FRITZ!Box receives from the
Internet (downstream direction) cannot be changed.
