5) Setting up Bandwidth Management
Bandwidth Management provides a mechanism to setup bandwidths according to IP address
or port or both. You can define the bandwidth policy, including minimum bandwidth and
maximum bandwidth, to a fixed IP address or a fixed port or both for controlling the download
traffic. You could also define upload bandwidth by setting up the NAT.
1
Click Basic Config page in Bandwidth Management folder.
2
Select Yes to enable Bandwidth
Management function.
Download stream
3
If we want to limit the download bandwidth of a host within a speed range, for example,
100 to 200kbps, we need to fill in the host IP address, the maximum and the minimum data
speeds into the download policy field. If the minimum speed is defined, the host can transmit
data at a minimum data speed of 100kbps regardless of the network 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 s e t u p w e b a c c e s s
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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