The Wmm Screen; Table 18 Wlan > Essid Definition > Radius - ZyXEL Communications NXC-8160 User Manual

The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 18 WLAN > ESSID Definition > RADIUS
LABEL
Server Name
Server Address
Server Password
Server Port
Server Timeout
Remove
Save

4.5 The WMM Screen

Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) is a wireless interoperability standard designed to prioritize data
packets based on the type of information they carry: video, voice, best effort, and
background. Typically, video and voice data require more bandwidth, so their data packets
will get higher priority. Best effort and background data packets generally receive lower
priority as they tend to be less bandwidth-intensive, at least in theory. Quality of Service (QoS)
prioritization is, by and large, an imperfect scheme for passing data over large networks and
the Internet; it relies on all intermediary servers using identical or near-identical prioritization
schemes, and this is not always the case.
For instance, your company may give voice data the highest priority if your internal telephone
network relies on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to implment its communications
scheme; however, those data packets may suddenly be sent to the back of the priority queue if
they hit, say, an ISP in Great Britain that wants to minimize its voice traffic in order to save
bandwidth for other kinds of data traffic, such as online gaming or peer-to-peer data exchange.
As such, QoS settings only ever become meaningful between the ISP gateway and your local
area network.
Click WLAN > ESSID Definition > WMM to open this screen. This is where you can
configure the NXC-8160's WMM parameters.
The WMM Parameters for any given ESSID can only be configured if the
Enable WMM checkbox is selected for that ESSID on the WLAN > ESSID
Definition > ESSID Settings screen. See
NXC-8160 User's Guide
DESCRIPTION
Enter a RADIUS server name.
Enter the RADIUS server's IP address.
Enter the password the NXC-8160 should use to log into the RADIUS server.
Enter the RADIUS server's port number.
Enter the duration that the NXC-8160 waits for a response before it times out
of the RADIUS server.
Select this option to remove a RADIUS server from the list.
Click Save to save your customized settings.
Chapter 4 WLAN Settings
Section 4.2 on page 43 for more.
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