Netgear AC1600-WiFi User Manual - Page 162
Manage the Advanced WiFi Features, Keep Existing Wireless Settings, Apply
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AC1600 WiFi Cable Modem Router • Keep Existing Wireless Settings. By default, the Keep Existing Wireless Settings check boxes are selected for the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. NETGEAR recommends that you leave these check boxes selected. However, when these check boxes are selected, some applications might not detect the modem router. CAUTION: When you clear a Keep Existing Wireless Settings check box and you add a new WiFi client through WPS, the modem router's WiFi settings for the associated network change to an automatically generated SSID and passphrase (also referred to as the WiFi network password or network key). 8. Click the Apply button. Your settings are saved. Manage the Advanced WiFi Features The modem router supports the following advanced WiFi features: • WMM. Wi-Fi Multimedia Quality of Service (WMM QoS) prioritizes WiFi voice and video traffic over the WiFi link. WMM QoS prioritizes WiFi data packets from different applications based on four access categories: voice, video, best effort, and background. For an application to receive the benefits of WMM QoS, WMM must be enabled on both the application and the client running that application. Legacy applications that do not support WMM and applications that do not require QoS are assigned to the best effort category, which receives a lower priority than voice and video. This feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it. • PMF. Protected Management Frames (PMF) is a security feature that protects unicast and multicast management frames from being intercepted and changed for malicious purposes. This feature is disabled by default, but you can enable it. PMF is supported in Windows 8. If all computers on your network run Windows 8, you can enable PMF. If you are not sure, keep PMF disabled. • WMF. Wireless Multicast Forwarding (WMF) lets the modem router forward multicast frames to wireless LAN (WLAN) hosts, using unicast addresses. WMF provides robust wireless communication because unicast frames are acknowledged, retried, and dynamically rate-controlled. This feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it. • ATF. Airtime Fairness (ATF) ensures that all WiFi clients receive equal time on the network. Network resources are divided by time, so if five WiFi clients are connected to the network, they each get one-fifth of the network time. The advantage of this feature is that the slowest WiFi clients do not control network responsiveness. This feature is disabled by default, but you can enable it. Manage the Advanced WiFi Network Settings 162