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Prioritize POS Over Guest Wi-Fi

Keep registers and payment terminals fast and reliable while guest Wi-Fi shares the same bonded link — with VLANs, a bandwidth floor, and an outbound rule.

Registers must never stall because a customer is streaming on the guest network. The pattern is three layers: separate the traffic, guarantee POS its bandwidth, and steer POS to the most reliable path.

Steps

  1. Put POS and guest on separate VLANs. In Network → VLAN, create a POS VLAN and a Guest VLAN so their traffic is isolated and can be shaped independently.
  2. Cap guest and reserve for POS. Under User Groups & Bandwidth Control, put guest devices in a limited group and give the POS group a bandwidth reservation so it always has headroom.
  3. Steer POS to the best path. In Outbound Policy, add a rule matching the POS VLAN and use Priority (or a smoothed SpeedFusion tunnel) so POS rides the most reliable connection; leave guest on plain load-balancing.
  4. Lock it down. Add an internal firewall rule so Guest cannot reach the POS VLAN at all.
An outbound-policy rule: match the POS source and assign it a priority path.
An outbound-policy rule: match the POS source and assign it a priority path.
Bandwidth control: cap the guest group so it can never starve POS.
Bandwidth control: cap the guest group so it can never starve POS.

Tip

Do this once in InControl and it pushes to every store at once — the rule set, the VLANs, and the firewall in one policy across the whole fleet.