Prioritize Internet Traffic With Quality Of Service; Optimize Internet Gaming With Upstream Qos - NETGEAR R7000 User Manual

Prioritize Internet Traffic with Quality of Service

You can use Quality of Service (QoS) to assign high priority to gaming and video streaming.
Figure 6. You can prioritize downstream traffic, upstream traffic, or both

Optimize Internet Gaming with Upstream QoS

Upstream QoS prioritizes network traffic from local devices like your Xbox to the Internet.
This provides for a lag-free online gaming experience.
High priority traffic
Internet
Best effort traffic
Figure 7. Upstream QoS assigns high priority to gaming traffic from your Xbox
NETGEAR recommends that only gamers enable the Upstream QoS feature. If you do not
game and you turn on this feature, some applications might not perform as well as usual.
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