User Manual

USER MANUAL

Peplink Balance Series

17 QoS

17.1 User Groups

(Available on Peplink Balance 380+)

LAN and PPTP clients can be categorized into three user groups - Manager, Staff, and Guest. This

table allows you to define rules and assign client IP addresses or subnets to a user group. You can apply

different bandwidth and traffic prioritization policies on each user group in the Bandwidth

Control and Application sections.

The table is automatically sorted, and the table order signifies the rules' precedence. The smaller and

more specific subnets are put towards the top of the table and have higher precedence; larger and less

specific subnets are placed towards the bottom.

Click the Add button to define clients and their user group. Click the

button to remove the defined

rule.

Two default rules are pre-defined and put at the bottommost. They are All DHCP reservation

clients and Everyone, and they cannot be removed. All DHCP reservation clients represents the LAN

clients defined in the DHCP Reservation table in the LAN settings page. Everyone represents all clients

that are not defined in any rule above. Click on a rule to change its group.

Add / Edit User Group

Subnet / IP Address

From the drop-down menu, choose whether you are going to define the client(s) by an IP

Address or a Subnet.

If IP Address is selected, enter a name defined in DHCP Reservation table or a LAN

client's IP address. If Subnet is selected, enter a subnet address and specify its subnet

mask.

Group

This field is to define which User Group the specified Subnet / IP Address belongs to.

Once users have been assigned to a user group, their internet traffic will be restricted by rules defined for

that particular group. Please refer to the following two sections for details.