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application based traffic shaping has no effect?

Heartwood Hub

Following this article: 

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/123062

Application traffic shaping does not seem to have any effect at all.   

 

I've set a super low bandwidth limit for a policy I call "guest video" (very limited for testing purposes) 

 

 

Applied that policy to a specific application: (in this case I"ve applied it to netflix/youtube/amazon streaming)

 

then applied it to firewall rules:

 

I've tried this on both Captive portal networks and hotspot networks with no effect at all.   missing somthing?



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    You do realise that the limit you have set is 40Kb/s?

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Yup, as I mentioned in the post, I have it set super low for testing,  I've also tested it at various intervals from 100Kb/s-1000Kb/s.  I set it super low, to see if it was working because at that speed it should barely load videos.  they still load at full speed.    

  • 0 in reply to Heartwood Hub

    What does the XG diagnostics show as to speed?

    Is the traffic going through the correct rule, review logviewer.

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Log viewer shows traffic going through the correct rule.

    Current live connections show the traffic under the correct application and user. (for the captive portal at least, there is also traffic showing up under application as N/A i'm assuming this is the hotspot user) (for example USER-A watching youtube, live connections show traffic for this user, with MB for youtube streaming) 

    Diagnostics pertaining to speed, is it possible to view speed per user?  I can see WAN speed and interface, but there is other traffic on those ports, so it's difficult to see specifically what each user may be using. 

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    Log viewer shows traffic going through the correct rule.

    Current live connections show the traffic under the correct application and user. (for the captive portal at least, there is also traffic showing up under application as N/A i'm assuming this is the hotspot user) (for example USER-A watching youtube, live connections show traffic for this user, with MB for youtube streaming) 

    Diagnostics pertaining to speed, is it possible to view speed per user?  I can see WAN speed and interface, but there is other traffic on those ports, so it's difficult to see specifically what each user may be using. 

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