Benefits of MSI AI QoS
Networking
Many constantly dropping connections or lag spikes in your games can be attributed to your router’s QoS failing to do its job effectively. It’s not surprising. Why? Traditional QoS techniques now struggle to keep up with the scores of devices and application types being added to a modern home network.
MSI’s AI QoS revolutionizes the home networking experience by leveraging an AI model to detect traffic types based on factors like data flow characteristics. It uses this information to direct network traffic more consistently, ensuring critical data packets reach their destinations without delay.
Prioritizing Bandwidth for Your Applications
When you’re gaming or on a work call, the last thing you want is lag or connection drops because others are using your network. MSI’s AI QoS offers a far better solution than plotting ways to keep others off your home network while you work or relax, by prioritizing traffic from the apps you need.
The three available modes (Gaming, Streaming, and Work-from-Home) are trained to recognize and optimize network traffic for 3 different kinds of traffic.
In Gaming Mode, AI QoS immediately detects data packets characteristic of online gaming and marks them as critical – ensuring their delivery without delay. Similarly, the Streaming mode prioritizes OTT streaming traffic, and the Work-from-Home Mode prioritizes real-time communication (VOIP) traffic.
Although each mode is trained to speed up its namesake traffic type, other traffic types won’t suffer. The AI model is still trained to recognize other real-time traffic even when in a specific mode – ensuring that your livestreams or discord calls go on without any lag or interruptions while gaming.
Favoring the traffic you need at any given time is a boon to home networks, where a network typically serves a broad range of devices and applications. MSI’s AI QoS allows you to optimize your existing bandwidth more effectively, instead of paying more for higher speeds you may not need.
Leverage AI to Optimize QoS
While you can switch between the 3 available modes to pick a specific task that you want to prioritize, you can also use a 4th AI Auto mode that directs traffic to the best of its ability. The AI model is trained to detect all kinds of traffic, including gaming, streaming, voice calls, smart devices, etc. – allowing it to decide what applications should get preference at any given time.
For example, if it encounters a situation where it is forced to serve either a packet for a smart device calling home or an intense gameplays in Path of Exile, it’ll automatically prioritize the gaming packet as it recognizes its critical, real-time nature. You can see evidence of this in our benchmark with AI QoS ON vs. OFF where we saw a whopping 90% reduction in latency spikes.
The AI algorithm continuously tweaks the router’s QoS settings to spread available bandwidth across different types of network traffic – ensuring a clog-free network and a seamless online experience for all users and devices.
One-Click AI QoS
Even if you could look past older QoS techniques’ invasiveness, their relative ineffectiveness for a super broad range of applications (as is typical for a home network) remains an issue. What’s more, configuring them properly requires a decent amount of expertise. MSI’s AI QoS turns this around with features that anyone can leverage!
One good example is the prominent Dragon Shield button on the router. A simple press of this button allows you to cycle between the 3 specific QoS Modes (Gaming, Streaming, Work) and a general AI Auto mode. That’s it! No complex configuration required.
RGB Mystic Light on the antennae of the MSI RadiX AXE6600 lights up in different colors according to the current QoS mode.
The Future of Networking
When it comes to home networks, reliability for a broad range of applications is paramount. Whether you’re gaming, streaming a show on Netflix, or hopping on an important Zoom call, your online experience should be flawless.
Conclusion
MSI’s RadiX line of Gaming Routers comes equipped with AI QoS. Not only does it enable faster and smoother access to the internet for anyone on the network, but it also eliminates privacy concerns caused by invasive traditional QoS techniques.
You can learn more about it and read our complete coverage of AI QoS and how it compares to conventional QoS here.
Learn more about MSI's networking solution:
- MSI RadiX AXE6600 WiFi 6E Tri-Band Gaming Router
- MSI RadiX AX6600 WiFi 6 Tri-Band Gaming Router
- MSI AX1800 WiFi USB Adapter
