Understanding Quality of Service

Quality of service (QoS) configuration allows you to tune throughput and performance for different types of wireless traffic such as voice over IP (VoIP), audio, video, streaming media, or traditional IP data. You can specify minimum and maximum transmission wait times for traffic queues from the access point to the client and/or from the client to the access point.

The default values configured for traffic queues are those suggested by the Wi-Fi Alliance in the Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) specification. These values should not need to be changed in normal use.

Note: QoS settings apply to either radio 1 and radio 2 in the AX411 Access Point and traffic for each radio is queued independently.

Note: Changing QoS settings might cause the access point to stop and restart system processes. If this happens, wireless clients will temporarily lose connectivity. We recommend that you change access point settings when WLAN traffic is low.

Related Topics

• Understanding Wi-Fi Multimedia
• Understanding Traffic Prioritization
• Understanding WMM Power Save
• Understanding No Acknowledgment