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Uncle Peter · 27-02-2012, 20:49

QoS and protected mode are completely unrelated. Protected mode, as the description suggests albeit in a very techy fashion, optimises the wireless radio performance of your router in a hostile environment where there are lots of strong signals present. Safe to say in most residential areas you should leave this switched off.

On domestic routers bandwidth management is usually implemented in a very rudimentary fashion. At best you will probably only be able to prioritise traffic by service (port number and protocol, ie: rudimentary QoS fashion) rather than packet shaping traffic by MAC address which is probably of more use to you.

27-02-2012, 20:49	#2
Uncle Peter 81-82-83-84 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: on holiday by mistake Age: 55 Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2 Posts: 5,977	Re: Prioritising internet traffic through my Belkin G Wireless Router QoS and protected mode are completely unrelated. Protected mode, as the description suggests albeit in a very techy fashion, optimises the wireless radio performance of your router in a hostile environment where there are lots of strong signals present. Safe to say in most residential areas you should leave this switched off. On domestic routers bandwidth management is usually implemented in a very rudimentary fashion. At best you will probably only be able to prioritise traffic by service (port number and protocol, ie: rudimentary QoS fashion) rather than packet shaping traffic by MAC address which is probably of more use to you.