Realtek Dragon User Guide 1. Using the Dragon Software Thank you for purchasing Dragon Software. Realtek Dragon is the best network management product available for online games. The Dragon software is used to control the network bandwidth on Windows 7, Windows8, Windows10 or later platforms. Many users play online game (League of Legend, StarCraft2, Overwatch), watch video streaming (YouTube, Netflix) or listen to online audio (KKBOX, Spotify), and download files through P2P software at the same time.
. Starting the Realtek Dragon Software Realtek Dragon network management software loads at Startup. Once installed, the Realtek Dragon network management icon shows on system tray (the right bottom corner of the screen). Mouse right click on the tray icon to show the application window. Users also can start Dragon network management from the “start” menu by left click the icon in following path “Start->Programs->Realtek->Dragon->Dragon.exe”.
mode, GAME mode, STREAM mode, BROWSER mode, and Work mode later. Dragon was a TSR program, user can minimize this window by click “Cross Button” 2.1 Feature pages The Dragon software provides 3 tabs, “MAIN PAGE”, “SETTINGS”, and “INFO”. When Dragon launches, it will display MAIN PAGE, because more information user concerned is contained in this page. 2.1.1 MAIN PAGE tab – Mode Selection Area In MAIN PAGE tab, there are Mode Selection area and Application List page.
Chrome, Edge, Firefox etc. will get the highest bandwidth priority, and the other processes will get lower bandwidth priority. E. WORK Mode: The process belongs to work such as Skype, LINE, Teams etc. will get the highest bandwidth priority, and the other processes will get lower bandwidth priority. F. R-rowStorm: If there are multiple supported adapters and connected, user can bind one process to any adapter by changing its priority. G.
If user select GAME mode, all gaming processes will be assigned to the highest priority, and other processes will be assigned to lower priority, as the picture shown below. If user select BROWSER mode, all processes that belong to browser will be assigned to the highest priority, and other processes will be assigned to lower priority, as the picture shown below.
If user select R-rowStorm mode, process will transmit packets by dedicated adapter according to the priority mapping table in SETTINGS page.
If user select BT mode, BT processes will be assigned to the highest priority and Dragon will teaming multiple adapters to speedup BT transmission.
2.1.2 MAIN PAGE tab – Application List Area As the picture shown above, there shows some information of each process in this area, such as GROUP, APPLICATION, BANDWIDTH, PRIORITY, and BLOCK. Because we divide all processes to six different groups, such as Game, Browser, Stream, Work, BT and undefined groups. We use different colors and icons to present these groups, so user can easily understand group information in group column: 1. it means Game group 2. it means Browser group 3.
For Example, please see the picture show right, chrome belongs to Browser group, League of Legends belongs to Game group, QyClient belongs to Stream group, Skype belongs to Work group, and BitComet belongs to BT group. User can limit the upload or download bandwidth easily by dragging the upload limitation bar or download limitation bar. User can change priority by left click priority button.
Because original undefined process is changed to Game/Stream/Browser/Work group by user, the priority assignment method will be changed by Game/Stream/Browser/Work group policy. For example, if user changes mode to Game mode, this process will be assigned to the highest priority (Level6), as the picture shown below. User also can change back to undefined group by click group button again.
2.2. SETTINGS tab In this page, there have two setting areas, R-rowStorm and Advanced. There must be at least two supported adapters with connected status on PC, otherwise the item “R-rowStorm” will not be displayed on this page.
2.2.1 SETTINGS tab – R-rowStrom page In this page, it shows the network adapters and priority binding status. As the picture shown above, it means the highest priority (Level6), and high priority (Level5) will transmit packets via adapter1 Ethernet. The normal priority (Level4), low priority (Level3), Lower priority (Level2), and the lowest priority (Level1) will transmit packets via adapter2 Ethernet. Adapter3 WiFi is disabled and cannot be selected, because the status is disconnected.
As the picture show above, when R-rowStorm feature is enabled, the group column will change to adapter column. It shows which network adapter channel used to connect to internet. For example, League of Legends.exe transmits packets via ethernet network adapter1, chrome.exe transmits packets via ethernet network adapter2, and BitComet.exe transmits packets via ethernet network adapter2, too.
2.2.2 SETTINGS tab – Advanced page User can open Advanced page by clicking Advanced button. In this setting page, user can enable/disable Display Program Icon, enable/disable Website Recognition feature, or reset application list to default by clicking “Reset” button. Application list shows applications with their icons. If user disables Display Program Icon feature, these icons will not be shown.
2.3. INFO tab There are five sub-pages in INFO page, including System Info, Alarm, Mobile Hotspot, Network Traffic, and About pages. User can get the information of system, and the statistical data of network in this page.
2.3.1 INFO tab – System Info As the picture shown above, if there are three Dragon supported network adapters in the computer, they will be listed in the left of the page. Here shows some information of these adapters such as IP address and link status. In this page, user also can get the hardware information like CPU model, RAM, VGA, and the operating system. Here also shows the network maximum bandwidth including upload and download. 2.3.
1. It is immediate ping latency. 2. It is average ping latency. 3. It is ping lost percentage information. If user enable this feature, it will monitor network quality of user’s platform continuously until disable. Dragon will save this information. If user want to check previous network quality, they can click open file dialog to open previous data. 2.3.3 INFO tab – Mobile Hotspot In Mobile Hotspot page, user can share network through WiFi adapter by choosing an Ethernet adapter.
The bandwidth usage of Mobile Hotspot function will be shown in the MAIN PAGE, called MobileHotspot process. User can adjust its bandwidth limit, priority, and block it like other processes.
2.3.4 INFO tab – Network Traffic In Network Traffic page, there are statistical data about instant network traffic as below. Or the top5 processes (network download/upload usage).
2.3.5 INFO tab - About In this page, it shows information of “Version” and “Copyright”. User can update Dragon database by clicking “UPDATE” button.
