Hi,
I'm an amateur trying to figure out the BWM on my ZyXEL ZyWall USG 50. There's some things that confuse me, and some things I'm not quite sure how to do.
My first question is regarding the difference between "inbound" and "outbound" as regards to BWM. I've read the help document a dozen times and I'm still not sure I have it straight in my head. Here's an example of something I want to do:
I have an IP cam that will totally saturate my DSL upload bandwidth if someone off-network views it. I want to limit that bandwidth so browsing doesn't suddenly become impossible. It's got a port open in the firewall, which is forwarded via NAT to a different port on the camera.
When someone (say, my brother) opens the rstp stream from the camera, who is "incoming"? My brother initiated the whole shebang by requesting the rstp stream. He is the "connection initiator," meaning the stream from my camera on LAN1 to my brother out on WAN1 is actually "inbound traffic" right? Seems backwards but that's how it reads in the manual, I think. So I need to limit a stream with SOURCE: WAN1 and DESTINATION: CAMERA on either the "outside" port or the "inside" port since they're different.
Can anyone make sense of the scenario above, in small words for a noob?
So the other problem I want to solve with BWM is really the same one. Any large upload (Pictures to a hosting site, video to youtube) kills my internet connection, breaks netflix, etc. presumably because there isn't enough upstream bandwidth to even get simple http and dns requests out. Can I fix this with BWM? How? Do I need to figure out a list of high-priority things (what else would be on this list?) or figure out a list of low-priority things? How can I limit youTube upload (which probably uses http) while allowing other http packets to sneak through?
If it sounds like I'm confused... I am. Sorry. Please help?
Thanks,
Eric
P.S. I know I need to set my outgoing bandwidth properly on WAN but I'm not sure what to set it too. What my ISP says I should get? What speedtest.net says I actually get? The minimum bandwidth I get when my neighborhood all gets online?
I'm an amateur trying to figure out the BWM on my ZyXEL ZyWall USG 50. There's some things that confuse me, and some things I'm not quite sure how to do.
My first question is regarding the difference between "inbound" and "outbound" as regards to BWM. I've read the help document a dozen times and I'm still not sure I have it straight in my head. Here's an example of something I want to do:
I have an IP cam that will totally saturate my DSL upload bandwidth if someone off-network views it. I want to limit that bandwidth so browsing doesn't suddenly become impossible. It's got a port open in the firewall, which is forwarded via NAT to a different port on the camera.
When someone (say, my brother) opens the rstp stream from the camera, who is "incoming"? My brother initiated the whole shebang by requesting the rstp stream. He is the "connection initiator," meaning the stream from my camera on LAN1 to my brother out on WAN1 is actually "inbound traffic" right? Seems backwards but that's how it reads in the manual, I think. So I need to limit a stream with SOURCE: WAN1 and DESTINATION: CAMERA on either the "outside" port or the "inside" port since they're different.
Can anyone make sense of the scenario above, in small words for a noob?
So the other problem I want to solve with BWM is really the same one. Any large upload (Pictures to a hosting site, video to youtube) kills my internet connection, breaks netflix, etc. presumably because there isn't enough upstream bandwidth to even get simple http and dns requests out. Can I fix this with BWM? How? Do I need to figure out a list of high-priority things (what else would be on this list?) or figure out a list of low-priority things? How can I limit youTube upload (which probably uses http) while allowing other http packets to sneak through?
If it sounds like I'm confused... I am. Sorry. Please help?
Thanks,
Eric
P.S. I know I need to set my outgoing bandwidth properly on WAN but I'm not sure what to set it too. What my ISP says I should get? What speedtest.net says I actually get? The minimum bandwidth I get when my neighborhood all gets online?
