Since almost all games nowadays are online, it is a sin not to think about optimizing the home network. Almost all routers have either or both NAT Boost and QoS features to aid the user’s game ...

We’re at an awkward stage as the age of network-streamed multimedia matures. Broadband and cell providers have only recently realized the public’s enormous appetite for streaming video, VoIP, and the ...

If you’ve ever engaged in a voice over IP (VoIP) phone call or conducted a video conference over the Web, you’ve probably experienced choppy audio, pixelated video, and other “hiccups” that make these ...

Windows 7 uses quality of service to prioritize network bandwidth for mission-critical applications or services. If QoS is enabled, it will control and manage Internet protocol traffic, ensuring that ...

The goal of network QoS is to ensure that your most critical network traffic gets to where it needs to go with the least amount of delay (or latency in network-speak). More specifically, you can ...

Using quality of service (QoS) on Cisco network devices helps provide both bandwidth and priority to certain types of network traffic. In this edition of Cisco Routers and Switches, David Davis walks ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has ...

Based on your feedback requesting what topics you’d like to see addressed in this blog, this is the first in a series of entries addressing Cisco’s Quality of Service (QoS) course, and the ...