Maintaining quality of service for wireless communications

A method of managing wireless communications, comprising

• determining a threshold transmission speed above which a transmission speed between a wireless station and an access point must stay to achieve a desired quality of service level for the wireless station;
• allocating wireless communication capacity for at least one communication between the wireless station and the access point based on the determined threshold transmission speed;
• wherein determining the threshold transmission speed includes
• determining an average packet size associated with at least one type of traffic transmitted by the wireless station;
• determining an average packet frequency associated with the at least one type of traffic transmitted by the wireless station;
• determining a wireless capacity consumption based upon the determined average packet size and the determined average packet frequency;
• and
• determining the threshold transmission speed based upon at least a portion of the determined wireless capacity consumption, the threshold transmission speed being different than the determined wireless capacity consumption.