Setting Up Traffic Shaper

To set up Traffic Shaper

Enable Traffic Shaper for the Internet connection.
You can enable Traffic Shaper for incoming or outgoing connections.

See Using Internet Setup.

Note: Traffic Shaper cannot control the number or type of packets it receives from the Internet; it can only affect the rate of incoming traffic by dropping received packets. This makes the shaping of inbound traffic less accurate than the shaping of outbound traffic. It is therefore recommended to enable traffic shaping for incoming traffic only if necessary.

Define QoS classes that reflect your communication needs. Alternatively, use the four built-in QoS classes.
See Adding and Editing a Class.
Use Allow or Allow and Forward rules to assign different types of connections to QoS classes.

For example, if Traffic Shaper is enabled for outgoing traffic, and you create an Allow rule associating all outgoing VPN traffic with the Urgent QoS class, then Traffic Shaper will handle outgoing VPN traffic as specified in the bandwidth policy for the Urgent class.

See Adding and Editing Rules.

Note: Traffic Shaper must be enabled for the direction of traffic specified in the rule.

Note: If you do not assign a connection type to a class, Traffic Shaper automatically assigns the connection type to the built-in "Default" class.