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Basic Sophos XG setup, online gaming.

Harmen

Hi Guys,

Build my own virtual XG on an older desktop (located Attic). (Intel desktopboard, i5, 8GB, 120GB SSG, Intel dual port NIC)

Running ESXi 6.5, gave the virtual machine 2 cores and 4GB ram. Network situation: Cisco modem bridge (groundfloor, utp cable going to attic (wan), lan going back downstairs to wifi ap and lan network.) Webbrowsing etc working fine, my family having no issues with browsing and streaming movies (Chromecast, Netflix)

At the moment have one rule for internet, doing basic webfiltering en simple IPS. Is there a way to improve gaming performance? Created a seperate rule for my laptop with no packet scanning.

Is there a way to troubleshooting gaming performance, when i ping the game server i get a steady ping of 30ms average. (login.p1.worldoftanks.eu)

During gaming the ping raises to approx. 60-80ms.

Let me know if you guys experienced this issue.



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  • 0 in reply to Michael Dunn

    Hi Michael,

    the any service is required for some rule when the XG does not function as expected eg if I don't want to scan imaps because outlook can't handle it even with certificate installed I have to use the general web access page unless you tick the imaps box in the mail rule. If the mail traffic went through the mail rule then I could select specific applications in the general web access.

    I do have the general access rule down the list after other rules, so it is not open slather.

    Ian

    Update:- I will leave my original post as is. I have since been through and tightened up my firewall rules, but had to remove https scanning, broke a number of sites with invalid certificate from the website. Added imaps to one of the general rules, for the mac with MS office.

     

    Further broke all mail access. Did a restore and will start more refinement test tomorrow.