EnGenius Technologies ESR-9710 - Manual (Page 62)

ESR-9710 Wireless N Gigabit Router Version 1.0
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6.3.12 WISH
ƒ WISH is short for Wireless Intelligent Stream Handling, a technology developed to
enhance your experience of using a wireless network by prioritizing the traffic of
different applications.
ƒ Enable WISH: Place a check in this box to enable the WISH feature.
ƒ HTTP: Place a check in this box to add HTTP as a classifier. This allows the device
to recognize HTTP transfers for many common audio and video streams and
prioritize them above other traffic. Such streams are frequently used by digital media
players.
ƒ Windows Media Center: Place a check in this box to add HTTP as a classifier.This
enables the router to recognize certain audio and video streams generated by a
Windows Media Center PC and to prioritize these above other traffic. Such streams
are used by systems known as Windows Media Extenders, such as the Xbox 360.
ƒ Automatic: Place a check in this box for the device to automatically configure the
classifiers. When enabled, this option causes the router to automatically attempt to
prioritize traffic streams that it doesn't otherwise recognize, based on the behaviour
that the streams exhibit. This acts to deprioritize streams that exhibit bulk transfer
characteristics, such as file transfers, while leaving interactive traffic, such as gaming
or VoIP, running at a normal priority.
ƒ Enable: Place a check in this box to enable the WISH rule. A WISH Rule identifies a
specific message flow and assigns a priority to that flow. For most applications, the