Traffic Identification - Outbound Policies

Is there any plans to expand on the “Application Blocking” and “Web Blocking” feature? It seems like this router is pretty good at identifying traffic. I am not very good at identifying network traffic, but I do need to be able to do it to properly build outbound policies to a very granular level. I admit, I go a bit deeper than most, but I am really trying to make something out of nothing with regards to my internet connectivity.

In my journey to properly balance and utilize my connections with a focus primarily on gaming - I have needed to try to come up with ways to identify what traffic my game/application was generating so I could route it down the pipe I wanted it to go down.

It seems like Peplink is already identifying quite a bit of applications/services/destinations with their Web Blocking and Application Blocking features. Are there any plans to take that knowledge and apply it to Outbound Policies? For example – I want my TCP Discord traffic to go down one pipe, but my UDP discord traffic to go down a different one. Routing by domain name works some of the time, but for any cloud-hosted domain names - not so much. Finding network boundaries for domain names works sometimes, but most of the time the best you can come up with is a UDP port range for outbound policies for most real time traffic.

My point is – the router has the option to block “Web/Discord” traffic, but no way to specify how you would like “Web/Discord” traffic routed. It seems the same criteria used to identify the traffic to block it could also be used to route it. Are there any plans to implement anything like this?

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This feature would also be very helpful to exclude streaming video (Netflix, Amazon Video, YouTube, etc.) from SpeedFusion Cloud. PepLink can already identify streaming video content for firewall and for network monitoring, but this feature is missing from outbound rules.

I suspect this will become a more common usage scenario. When combining LTE + StarLink RV in remote locations, both of these WANS can suffer frequent drop outs and flucating speeds, making basic web browsing and email frustrating. This is true even when using multiple LTE + StarLink. SpeedFusion Cloud with LAN Smoothing makes everything work great, but at extra cost. Streaming Video (with it’s large data buffers) uses the most data and benefits the least from SpeedFusion, so I would like a simple setting to exclude all streaming video from SpeedFusion, while routing all other traffic through SpeedFusion. In case others ask, using separate VLANS or WiFi Networks is not sufficient, since the same devices are used for work/school and for Netflix, etc.

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