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Limiting bandwidth consumption on LTE backup connection

dma0

I was wondering if there was a way (hopefully a fairly straighforward way) to limit the rate and total consumption of bandwidth when XG fails over to my backup LTE connection. LTE is a bit on the pricey side where I am so was hoping to do this to cap the costs to a maximum.

I suspect this is done by creating a firewall rule, but am not quite sure how to go about it. If anyone might care to share some examples I would be most indebted to you.



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    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

  • 0 in reply to Ashen1

    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.

  • 0 in reply to dma0

    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.

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