How does wifi wmm work

Characters Left : Submit Cancel. Get information, documentation, videos and more for your specific product. Ask the Community. Need to Contact Support? See Support Options. Contact Support. Select a product or category below for specific instructions. N Routers. Nighthawk Routers. Powerline and Wall Plug Extenders. The APSD allows smooth transition in and out of sleep mode by allowing the mobile devices to signal the router of its status. There are two types of APSD that goes under this type of battery power saving feature.

S-APSD scheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery , the Access Point will send buffered data based on a predetermined schedule known to the power-saving device without any signal from the station device.

The reason for this is that the mobile devices cannot retrieve the data from router after being awaken from the sleep state. WMM Access Category. Best effort. Specify a percentage value for the following WMM access categories in the corresponding Share field.

You can allocate a higher bandwidth for voice and video traffic than other types of traffic based on the network profile. Background WMM — Allocates bandwidth for background traffic such as file downloads or print jobs. Best effort WMM —Allocates bandwidth or best effort traffic such as traffic from legacy devices or traffic from applications or devices that do not support QoS.