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Bandwidth Management Wizard
This chapter provides information on the Wizard Setup screens for bandwidth management.
Bandwidth management is only useful when the ZyXEL Device is trying to send more traffic
out through than the WAN port than the WAN port can support. In this case, bandwidth
management allows you to control the amount of traffic going out through the WAN port and
which applications can use this traffic. You specify which applications can use this traffic by
assigning each one a priority and how much bandwidth it is allocated.
• High-priority applications get to use their allocation first.
• If there is more bandwidth left, medium-priority applications get to use their allocation.
• If there is still more bandwidth left, low-priority applications get to use their allocation.
• If there is still more bandwidth, all applications, including those above and other types of
applications, share it.
Some applications, such as VoIP and online gaming, need to have enough bandwidth to
provide acceptable quality. These applications usually have high priority. Other applications,
such as web surfing and e-mail, might run more slowly if there is not a lot of bandwidth, but
the quality is still adequate. These applications have medium or low priority. There are still
other applications, such as some large file transfers, that are less urgent than the first two kinds
of applications. You do not usually allocate any bandwidth to these applications because these
applications only get bandwidth when other applications are not using it.
This wizard helps you set the priority of some pre-defined applications. Use Maintenance >
Bandwidth MGMT to change the amount of bandwidth allocated to each one or to set up
priorities and allocations for other types of applications.
4.1 Main Wizard Screen
Use this screen to select which wizard you want to run.
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