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Categories for Prioritization
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Whenever Internet telephony is included in this
category, this application always has the highest
priority, even over other real-time applications.
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Prioritized applications
This category is suitable for applications that require
a fast reaction time (for example, company access,
terminal applications, games).
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For network applications prioritized in this cate-
gory, 90% of the FRITZ!Box's upload bandwidth is
available, as long as no application from the “Re-
al-time applications” category requires band-
width. The remaining 10% of the upload band-
width is available for applications that are prioriti-
zed in lower categories or not prioritized at all.
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If multiple network applications are assigned to
the “Prioritized applications” category, then they
must share the available capacity.
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Background applications
This category is suitable for applications that do not
require any high transmission speed and which are
not time-critical (for example, peer-to-peer services
or automatic updates).
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Network applications assigned to this category
are always treated with the lowest priority when
the Internet connection is working at full capacity.
So whenever an application from a different cate-
gory or a non-prioritized application requires the
entire bandwidth, all background applications
must wait until bandwidth capacity becomes
available again.
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If no other network applications are active, then
the background applications receive the entire
bandwidth.
Network applications and network devices are assigned to
the categories using rules.