Traffic shaping

Okay kiddo, imagine you're playing with your favourite toys, and you have lots of toys to play with. But sometimes, your friends come over and they also want to play with your toys. When there are too many people playing with the toys, things might get a bit messy and chaotic.

Traffic shaping is like when your mom or dad tells you to share your toys nicely with your friends so that everyone can play without breaking any of the toys or getting hurt.

In the same way, traffic shaping helps the internet share its resources, like the internet connection, fairly between all the people who want to use it. This is called network traffic and it's when lots of information is being sent and received between computers and devices connected to the internet.

Traffic shaping can help make sure that certain types of internet traffic, like video calls or streaming movies, get priority over other types like email or web browsing. This can help make sure that the internet works smoothly without any delays or slow-downs, just like when you share your toys nicely with your friends.

So the next time you hear about traffic shaping, just remember it's like sharing toys nicely so that everyone who wants to use the internet can do so in a fair and equal way.