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VLAN/Rate Control: Virtual Local Area Network, Basically A Broadcast Domain. in The

VLAN is used to separate ports into broadcast domains to improve network efficiency and security. Rate control allows setting maximum inbound and outbound bandwidth for each LAN port to minimize impact from heavy users. The document describes how to configure VLAN groups and rate limits for each LAN port in the router.

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VLAN/Rate Control: Virtual Local Area Network, Basically A Broadcast Domain. in The

VLAN is used to separate ports into broadcast domains to improve network efficiency and security. Rate control allows setting maximum inbound and outbound bandwidth for each LAN port to minimize impact from heavy users. The document describes how to configure VLAN groups and rate limits for each LAN port in the router.

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VLAN/Rate Control

Introduction
VLAN is Virtual Local Area Network, basically a broadcast domain. In the
switched network system, a broadcast packet or an unknown destination MAC
address packet will broadcast to all the other ports, which will decrease the
whole network system performance dramatically. By grouping some ports into
one VLAN, broadcast packets will only be sent to the ports within the same
VLAN without effecting the traffic of other ports outside the VLAN. Because the
broadcast domain is independent during different VLANs, the all packets from
any port cant cross different VLANs. Any port can be grouped as one VLAN,
and ports can be shared among different VLANs(i.e. One port can belong to
different VLANs). In this way, VLAN improve efficiency of network resource
usage and network security.
Rate Control allows you to set upper port forwarding rate(also called
bandwidth throttling), allowing you to set a maximum In-bound and/or
Out-bound bandwidth available for each LAN port. This is useful to minimize
the impact on other users from one user who would otherwise monopolise the
ADSL bandwidth (e.g. playing games or downloading large files).








VLAN Configuration
Enable: Tick Enable to turn on the VLAN function.
There are 4 VLAN groups: VLAN0/VLAN1/VLAN2/VLAN3. Tick the ports
you want to group as the same VLAN group. All unchecked ports will be
grouped as the same VLAN (non-visible group). If only one port is checked as a
VLAN, then this port only can communicate with WAN.
P1: Lan port 1.
P2: Lan port 2.
P3: Lan port 3.
P4: Lan port 4.























Rate Control
Enable: Tick Enable to turn on the Rate Control function.
For each of the LAN ports (P1, P2, P3 and P4), you can choose to limit the
incoming and/or outgoing bandwidth. Simply tick the In or Out box under
the LAN port number, and enter the rate under the In or Out tick box. To
turn off a Rate Control setting for a port, simply chick on the tick to remove
it.
Out: Tick Out to enable out-bound (upload) Rate Control for this LAN port.
In: Tick In to enable in-bound (download) Rate Control for this LAN port.
Rate: Enter a number that is a multiple of 32 (i.e. 32, 64, 96, 128) and not
more than 100,000. This number is the maximum rate for this port in this
direction, in kbps (1000 bits per second).

Note that ADSL connections usually have much lower upload (out-bound)
bandwidth than download (in-bound) bandwidth, and hence the ability to limit
each individually. For example a 256/64 ADSL connection has 256kbps
download (in-bound) bandwidth and 64bps upload (out-bound) bandwidth.

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