Limiting bandwidth consumption on LTE backup connection

Hi,

Kindly refer to this KB in creating traffic shaping policies https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/123059,

once you have created a traffic shaping policy, you can then now apply it to a firewall policy, and point your WAN gateway to your LTE connection.

hope it helps, give it a shot, and let us know how it goes.

Regards,

Rap

Thanks - that's very helpful. I've tried setting up some test policies and rules based on the article. Will try forcing a failover to see how well it works. The only thing I wasn't able to do was to fix a maximum of bandwidth consumption (i.e. stop after a total of X GB is uploaded and downloaded). I don't suppose it matters much the order which the rule shows up, does it? I've tentatively put it at the bottom.

try putting the policy right at bottom of your primary wan link rule, or make sure that your LTE connection is secondary in the WAN link failover settings.

Thanks and will do!

The default traffic shaping rules seem odd to me. It says that its rated in kiloBYTES per second yet some of the default rules are configured as if its kiloBITS per second. So my question is which is it actually?