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Traffic Shaping - Limit bandwidth on streams not working

Philipp Greindl

Hi XG community,
I want to limit traffic on youtube/netflix streams to the lowest quality possible.
I have created the traffic shaping policy, used it in the webfilter category with the two domains(youtube.com, netflix.com).
The firewall rule is standard LAN to WAN with the webfilter. But I can still watch videos in 4k.

Maybe someone can help me here,

Regards Philipp



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    Edit: 

    I probably fixed it by creating a traffic shaping policy for applications and using it on the category "streaming media" in the app-filter.

    I didn't know accessing a website with a web-browser is being recognized as an app by the XG.

    Now the problem is when I wan't to make it user specific I have to create a new firewall-rule for every different user/group.

    Edit2:

    The only problem is you can't restrict it to users, groups, time and quota settings like in the web filter.

    Streaming media will always be limit by all users/devices in the linked firewall rule. You have to create extra firewall rules for different app filter settings.

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  • +1

    Edit: 

    I probably fixed it by creating a traffic shaping policy for applications and using it on the category "streaming media" in the app-filter.

    I didn't know accessing a website with a web-browser is being recognized as an app by the XG.

    Now the problem is when I wan't to make it user specific I have to create a new firewall-rule for every different user/group.

    Edit2:

    The only problem is you can't restrict it to users, groups, time and quota settings like in the web filter.

    Streaming media will always be limit by all users/devices in the linked firewall rule. You have to create extra firewall rules for different app filter settings.

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