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II-5-4 Hardware Acceleration
Hardware Acceleration is also called PPA in DrayTek for it is based on Protocol Processing Engine
(PPE) of Infineon. It can only support 4096 sessions for network traffic (IN & OUT).
When the data traffic is heavy and data transmission is getting slowly and slowly, you can configure
this page to accelerate the data streaming by hardware itself. Open Hardware Acceleration to
access into the following page:
Available settings are explained as follows:
Item Description
Enable Hardware
Acceleration
Disable – The default setting.
Enable - Choose to enable the hardware acceleration function.
Exception List If you want to restrict some users/clients from transmitting data
through the router by using the hardware acceleration function, check
this box to create an exclusion list.
MAC Address - Enter the MAC address of the client.
ARP Table - Click to select the client listed on the ARP table. Then, the
MAC address of the selected client will be shown on the MAC Address
field.
Description - Enter a brief explanation for the selected client.
After finishing this web page configuration, please click OK to save the settings.