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Check background apps for possible bandwidth usage
Authored by: adrianm on Oct 25, '05 09:45:08AM
I noticed that my wireless access point (Netgear WPN802) has a WMM feature:
WMM (Wireless Multimedia) is a subset of the 802.11e standard. WMM allows wireless traffic to have a range of priorities, depending on the kind of data. Time-dependent information, like video, audio, or voice will have a higher priority than normal traffic. For WMM to function correctly, wireless clients must also support WMM.
Obviously wireless only, but does the wireless extreme cards in Mac's support this? Would iChat / QuickTime support it?

Would be very nice if iChat AV, QuickTIme etc was higher priority than regular surfing, and background high volume downloads (System Update, iTunes updates, bittorrent, etc) would be a lower priority.

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