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Table 99 Media Bandwidth Management: Summary (continued)

 

 

 

 

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

 

 

Speed (kbps)

Enter the amount of bandwidth for this interface that you want to allocate using

 

 

bandwidth management.

 

 

This appears as the bandwidth budget of the interface’s root class. The recommendation

 

 

is to set this speed to match the interface’s actual transmission speed. For example, set

 

 

the WAN interface speed to 1000 kbps if your Internet connection has an upstream

 

 

transmission speed of 1 Mbps.

 

 

If this number is higher than the interface’s actual transmission speed, and you configure

 

 

bandwidth rules for all of the bandwidth, higher priority traffic could use all of the

 

 

bandwidth so lower priority traffic does not get through.

 

 

Note: Unless you enable Max Bandwidth Usage, the ZyXEL Device

 

 

only uses up to the amount of bandwidth that you configure here.

 

 

The ZyXEL Device does not use any more bandwidth for the

 

 

interface’s connections, even if the interface has more outgoing

 

 

bandwidth.

 

Scheduler

Select either Priority-Basedor Fairness-Basedfrom the drop-down menu to control

 

 

the traffic flow.

 

 

Select Priority-Basedto give preference to bandwidth classes with higher priorities.

 

 

Select Fairness-Basedto treat all bandwidth classes equally.

 

 

 

 

Max

Select this check box to have the ZyXEL Device divide up all of the interface’s

 

Bandwidth

unallocated and/or unused bandwidth among the bandwidth classes that require

 

Usage

bandwidth. Do not select this if you want to reserve bandwidth for traffic that does not

 

 

match a bandwidth class or you want to limit the speed of this interface (see the Speed

 

 

field description).

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your settings back to the ZyXEL Device.

 

 

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

 

15.8 Bandwidth Management Rule Setup

You must use the Bandwidth Management Summary screen to enable bandwidth management on an interface before you can configure rules for that interface.

Click Advanced > Bandwidth MGMT > Rule Setup to open the following screen.

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