Network: Traffic Shaping

Enable Port Prioritization to help prevent lags in games or specific applications. All users that are connected to the wifi vending machine  share  the global bandwidth. If traffic shaping is enabled,  the ports you set  will have higher priority in the network. 

Here’s an example scenario on how it works:

Traffic Shaping Disabled

Total Bandwidth: 50 MBPS

Number of connected devices: 25

Bandwidth per device: 2mbps

Traffic Shaping Enabled

Total Bandwidth: 50MBPS

Number of connected devices: 25

Number of devices that are using the prioritized ports: 10

Bandwidth Allocation (in percent) for the prioritized ports: 20% (10MBPS)

Bandwidth per device: 1.6MBPS (from the 40MBPS left after allocating 20% to prioritized ports)

Bandwidth per device that is using the prioritized ports:  2.6MBPS (1.6MBPS from the global bandwidth and 1MBPS from the bandwidth allocated on port priority).
 

Enable Traffic Shaping

Apps & Games

• Click the switch above “Traffic shaping is disabled” to enable traffic shaping.
• Set bandwidth allocation in percent. 
• Choose from the list of predefined ports for games and applications and check the box.
• Click the “Save” button.

Custom Ports

You can also add your own custom ports if it’s not included in the list of predefined ports. 

• Click the  “+ Add New Ports” button.
• Select a Protocol.
• Enter the destination and recipient port. 
• Add a description for the specific custom port.

Please note that we do not recommend Traffic Shaping to lower end devices. It consumes CPU processing power to filter these packets that are passing through the network. This may result to  slow or laggy network connection.

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