ZyXEL Communications P-870HW-I User Manual

P-870HW-I1 User’s Guide

Chapter 15 Bandwidth MGMT

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 for examples of services. The following table describes the labels 

in this screen.

Table 90   Management > Bandwidth MGMT > Configuration

Active

Select this to enable bandwidth management.

LAN BW 

Budget(kbps)

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

bandwidth management. 
It is recommended to set this speed to match what the LAN port’s connection can 

handle. For example, set it to 100000 kbps if your Ethernet network has a maximum 

speed of 100000 kbps.
You can set this number higher than the interface’s actual transmission speed. This will 

stop lower priority traffic from being sent if higher priority traffic uses all of the actual 

bandwidth. 
You can also set this number lower than the interface’s actual transmission speed. 

However, this will cause the ZyXEL Device to not use some of the interface’s available 

bandwidth.

WLAN BW 

Budget(kbps)

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

bandwidth management. 
It is recommended to set this speed to match the maximum speed of the wireless 

network. In most cases, set it to 54000 kbps, unless your wireless network cannot 

handle this speed.
You can set this number higher than the interface’s actual transmission speed. This will 

stop lower priority traffic from being sent if higher priority traffic uses all of the actual 

bandwidth. 
You can also set this number lower than the interface’s actual transmission speed. 

However, this will cause the ZyXEL Device to not use some of the interface’s available 

bandwidth.

WAN BW 

Budget(kbps)

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

bandwidth management. 
It is recommended to set this speed to match what the WAN port’s connection can 

handle. For example, set it to 40000 kbps if your broadband modem or router has a 

maximum speed of 40000 kbps.
You can set this number higher than the interface’s actual transmission speed. This will 

stop lower priority traffic from being sent if higher priority traffic uses all of the actual 

bandwidth. 
You can also set this number lower than the interface’s actual transmission speed. 

However, this will cause the ZyXEL Device to not use some of the interface’s available 

bandwidth.

#

This field is a sequential value.

Direction 

Select LAN to apply bandwidth management to traffic that the ZyXEL Device forwards 

to the LAN. 
Select WAN to apply bandwidth management to traffic that the ZyXEL Device forwards 

to the WAN. 
Select WLAN to apply bandwidth management to traffic that the ZyXEL Device 

forwards to the WLAN. 

Name

This field displays the name of the rule. You can change it. Enter a descriptive name of 

up to 20 alphanumeric characters, including spaces.

Service

This field displays one of the ZyXEL Device’s predefined applications, or it displays 

User defined. If you want to change it to User defined, you may need to use the Edit 

Bandwidth Management Rule screen to set up detailed settings.

Dest Port

Enter the port number of the destination.A blank destination IP address means any 

destination IP address.