Tip/trick for simple home SFC setup

[DaveZ]

Hello,

I want to share my simple home SpeedFusion and outbound policy setup after trying way too many things to make random (unsupported, unforeseen, evolving) video chat apps (Discord, WhatsApp, etc) that our house uses all go over SpeedFusion … but not have everything go over SFC.

In short, I needed to stop playing “whack-a-mole” with precise traffic identification and just embrace that the web is fairly robust against failures, unlike other protocols. Therefore steer a few key protocols directly to WANs and then steer random UDP over a WAN smoothing tunnel, and random TCP over a dynamically bonded SF tunnel.

Also in my scenario, unlimited devices includes smart TVs, speakers, game consoles, NAS servers, etc. Basically anything that might consume an unhinged amount of data.

And of course if Google Workspace or Microsoft Teams are important to your setup, you can still add those to your SF setup and they’ll trigger before the HTTPS/QUIC policies.

Anyway, I hope this helps someone!

[peparn]

Thanks for sharing :). Setting these rules in non-uniform random environments is often hit and miss as you said, so it is nice to see how you did it.

[DaveZ]

Thanks. My only remaining frustration is that it’s hard (or impossible?) for Peplink to differentiate Google’s traffic from YouTube traffic.

It’s too bad that Google doesn’t have something like Apple’s “Content Caching” feature which automatically redirects big uploads/downloads by devices to a local server that can then have a dedicated outbound policy on the Peplink router, or put in an “unlimited” group like I did above.