Appendix: Quality Of Service Setup Example; Reserving Ip Addresses - NetComm NF8AC User Manual

Appendix: Quality of Service
Setup Example
The following Quality of Service (QoS) settings offer a basic setup example, setting up 2 devices connecting to an NF8AC router,
one with the highest priority for data and the other with the lowest priority for data. All other data packet traffic through the router
assumes a default best effort setting.
Quality of Service refers to the reservation of bandwidth resources on the NF8AC router to provide different priorities to different
applications, users or data flows or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow.
In this implementation, QoS employs DSCP (Differentiated Services Code Point), a computer networking architecture that specifies
a simple, scalable and course-grained mechanism for classifying and managing network traffic.
This example guide sets up QoS with two devices (PC and laptop) connecting via Ethernet cable to an NF8AC router. One device
(PC) is assigned high priority traffic while the other device (laptop) is assigned a low priority. Before Quality of Service can be
implemented, the first step involves reserving an IP address for each device, identified by their unique MAC addresses.

Reserving IP addresses

It is necessary to reserve an IP address for each of the devices connecting to the NF8AC router so that QoS settings can be
managed for each device.
1. Navigate to http://192.168.20.1
2. When prompted, enter admin as both the username and password.
3. Select Advanced Setup > LAN
4. Click the Add Entries button.
www.netcommwireless.com
in a web browser.
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