WL-500gP Wireless Router User Manual

6) Setting up Bandwidth Management

Bandwidth Management provides a mechanism to setup download and upload bandwidth based on IP address and port range. You can define the minimum bandwidth and maximum bandwidth for host within your LAN, and therefore control the traffic of you network. To set up upload bandwidth management, you need first setup virtual server to allow the incoming packets of the specified services.

1.Click Basic Config page in Bandwidth Management folder.

2.S e l e c t Ye s t o e n a b l e Bandwidth Management function.

3.Download bandwidth

If you want to limit the download bandwidth of a host within a speed range, for example, between 100 to 200kbps, you need to fill in the host IP address, the speeds (maximum: 200kbps; minimum: 100kbps). When the minimum speed is defined, the host can transmit data at the minimum speed regardless of the traffic conditions.

1).To apply on all host an FTP download speed policy, leave the IP address field blank, input "20" in the Port field and define the speeds, then click Add.

2).To set up Web access download policy, input "80" in the Port field, define the speeds and click Add.

3).To s e t u p d o w n l o a d bandwidth policy of a certain service for a host, input the host IP address and the port number of the service, define the speeds and click Add.

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