Chapter 22 Bandwidth Management

22.3 What You Need To Know

The sum of the bandwidth allotments that apply to the WAN interface (LAN to WAN, WLAN to WAN) must be less than or equal to the Upstream Bandwidth that you configure in the Bandwidth Management Advanced screen (Section 22.5 on page 162).

The sum of the bandwidth allotments that apply to the LAN interface (WAN to LAN, WAN to WLAN) must be less than or equal to the Downstream Bandwidth that you configure in the Bandwidth Management Advanced screen Section 22.5 on page 162.

22.4 General Screen

Use this screen to have the Router apply bandwidth management.

Click Management > Bandwidth Management to open the bandwidth management General screen.

Figure 112 Management > Bandwidth Management > General

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 72 Management > Bandwidth Management > General

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable

This field allows you to have Router apply bandwidth management.

Bandwidth

Enable bandwidth management to give traffic that matches a bandwidth rule priority over

Management

traffic that does not match a bandwidth rule.

 

 

Enabling bandwidth management also allows you to control the maximum or minimum

 

amounts of bandwidth that can be used by traffic that matches a bandwidth rule.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your customized settings.

 

 

Reset

Click Reset to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

22.5 Advanced Screen

Use this screen to configure bandwidth management rules for the pre-defined services or applications.

You can also use this screen to configure bandwidth management rule for other services or applications that are not on the pre-defined list of Router. Additionally, you can define the source and destination IP addresses and port for a service or application.

162

 

NBG-419N v2 User’s Guide