Chapter 9 Interfaces
ZyWALL ATP Series User’s Guide
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Network
Selection
Home network is the network to which you are originally subscribed.
Select
Home
to have the mobile broadband device connect only to the home network. If
the home network is down, the Zyxel Device’s mobile broadband Internet connection is
also unavailable.
Select
Auto
(Default) to allow the mobile broadband device to connect to a network to
which you are not subscribed when necessary, for example when the home network is
down or another mobile broadband base station's signal is stronger. This is recommended if
you need continuous Internet connectivity. If you select this, you may be charged using the
rate of a different network.
Budget Setup
Enable Budget
Control
Select this to set a monthly limit for the user account of the installed mobile broadband
card. You can set a limit on the total traffic and/or call time. The Zyxel Device takes the
actions you specified when a limit is exceeded during the month.
Time Budget
Select this and specify the amount of time (in hours) that the mobile broadband
connection can be used within one month. If you change the value after you configure
and enable budget control, the Zyxel Device resets the statistics.
Data Budget
Select this and specify how much downstream and/or upstream data (in Mega bytes) can
be transmitted via the mobile broadband connection within one month.
Select
Download
to set a limit on the downstream traffic (from the ISP to the Zyxel Device).
Select
Upload
to set a limit on the upstream traffic (from the Zyxel Device to the ISP).
Select
Download/Upload
to set a limit on the total traffic in both directions.
If you change the value after you configure and enable budget control, the Zyxel Device
resets the statistics.
Reset time and
data budget
counters on
Select the date on which the Zyxel Device resets the budget every month. If the date you
selected is not available in a month, such as 30th or 31st, the Zyxel Device resets the budget
on the last day of the month.
Reset time and
data budget
counters
This button is available only when you enable budget control in this screen.
Click this button to reset the time and data budgets immediately. The count starts over with
the mobile broadband connection’s full configured monthly time and data budgets. This
does not affect the normal monthly budget restart; so if you configured the time and data
budget counters to reset on the second day of the month and you use this button on the
first, the time and data budget counters will still reset on the second.
Actions when
over budget
Specify the actions the Zyxel Device takes when the time or data limit is exceeded.
Log
Select
None
to not create a log,
Log
to create a log, or
Log-alert
to create an alert log. If
you select
Log
or
Log-alert
you can also select
recurring every
to have the Zyxel Device
send a log or alert for this event periodically. Specify how often (from 1 to 65535 minutes) to
send the log or alert.
New connection
Select
Allow
to permit new mobile broadband connections or
Disallow
to drop/block new
mobile broadband connections.
Current
connection
Select
Keep
to maintain an existing mobile broadband connection or
Drop
to disconnect
it. You cannot set
New connection
to
Allow
and
Current connection
to
Drop
at the same
time.
If you set
New connection
to
Disallow
and
Current connection
to
Keep
, the Zyxel Device
allows you to transmit data using the current connection, but you cannot build a new
connection if the existing connection is disconnected.
Actions when over %
of time budget or %
of data budget
Specify the actions the Zyxel Device takes when the specified percentage of time budget
or data limit is exceeded. Enter a number from 1 to 99 in the percentage fields. If you
change the value after you configure and enable budget control, the Zyxel Device resets
the statistics.
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