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  • Traffic Shaping / QoS

    Good morning. I have been looking for information about the use of Traffic Shaping / QoS and applied what is indicated but in my case it is not working for me. I have 2 offices, each with a Sophos firewall. The server in office A sends data to the…
  • QoS issues (again)

    .Hello @all! So I have asked in the past a few questions about QoS, but I had a more complicated setup with two WANs and additionally the second was a bonding between an ADSL line and a 4G+ sim card, which was nor really steady regarding the bandwidth…
  • Sophos MG 125 Setup

    I need help with setting up my MG 125 device for bandwidth management. Can it do the job well? Thanks
  • VOIP QoS

    Hi, I am really confused about how to do this on XG. I can go to Traffic Shaping and create my policy and attach it to my rule or service - but then in Traffic Shaping Service there is a setting "Optimize for real-time (VoIP)" that is Enabled by default…
  • Configure Traffic Shape on a System Host

    Hi everyone, I have configured a bridge on ports 1 and 5 I would like to know if it is possible to configure a traffic shaping on a specific port. for example, port 1 with 10MB, port 5 with 40MB, I have created the this rule but I'm not sure if it really…
  • Getting lost with Traffic Shaping / QoS

    Hi all, We have a very busy site, with a 1Gb leased line connected to an XGS2100. I'm reading the Sophos literature on traffic shaping and wanted to check really how to get a simple approach fixed. Note, half our users are mac based, so we don't…
  • Excluding emails from network quota surfing

    Good day We want to configure network quota surfing on users .. but we want to exclude emails from being accounted for .. like when the users has depleted his or her data for the day, but we want email to continue flowing. Is there a way to achieve…
  • Limit total traffic of each client on open Wi-Fi

    Hello. We have an open Wi-Fi network that anyone can connect to without authenticating. We want each client who connects to be able to browse at most 1Gb of data per day. (of any type, navigation, online video, etc.) Is it possible to do this? Thank…
  • URL prioritizes

    Hi All, One of our customers requests me to prioritize specific URL traffic to all the users (sample URL - example.example.com/.../ . Does anyone have an idea how to do this task? He has two WAN links and I tried the SD-WAN routes but had no luck…
  • Question about traffic shaping

    Hello, I configured my XGS to use traffic shaping for Teams and Zoom (Applications - Traffic Shaping defaults). Do you confirm that I don't need to select also "Apply application-based traffic shaping policy" under the proper firewall traffic rule…
  • Application Traffic Shaping

    I’m a newbie in Sophos XGS VM version 20.0.0 , I want to make traffic shaping for two user groups for the same application category (Streaming): Group A: Traffic limit for 125 Kbyte Group B : Traffic limit for 1250 Kbyte Is it applicable in Sophos…
  • Traffic Shaping in XG135

    Hi All! Please let me know the best solution for the below situation. If I have 20Mbps, What's the best type of Traffic shaper to create for VLAN(50 users) maximum per ip 3Mbps. But 20Mbps for the whole VLAN.
  • Need control bandwidth cloud website.

    Hi, My business use google workspace for all service ( Gmail, Google Drive, Sheet, Doc, Slide, Etc.), We need control bandwidth for usage internet. We try config traffic shaping under application setting, i think this way only application. But if…
  • Sophos Application Traffic Shaping

    Hello Guys, I am trying to configure different traffic shaping rules for the same application category , but I am encountering some difficulties. because only option i see is default traffic shaping for applications. I was wondering if you could kindly…
  • QoS question

    Hello guys! I attempted to mess around with Traffic shaping settings and something seems off. Perhaps I am misunderstanding something so I thought I should ask For starters my internet connection is slow. I actually have two internet lines, one goes…
  • traffic shaping slows internet speed

    Hi all i have a 76 Mb bandwidth , 60 PCs and i made 12 rules for each department in my workplace and allowed users in each rule to access internet by their MAC address and i made traffic shaping for each rule 4-6 Mb guranteed and then tested each rule…
  • Usage oriented Traffic Shaping configuration

    Hi, We got a query from our client regarding Traffic Shaping configuration on the firewall as below, Policy association: Rules Rule type: Guarantee Guarantee – limit: 256 to 6400 KB/s Bandwidth usage type: Individual Please advise on the below…
  • Can I define both vlan and per-user bandwidth in Sophos Firewall?

    Hi , Can I define both vlan and per-user bandwidth in Sophos Firewall? For example , when setting a limit to traffic shaping vlan on Fortigate ; per-ip shaping could also be done.
  • Disable traffic shaping for user based rules

    Hey Guys, I have Sophos XG with two internal Zone A and B and WAN zone for internet access. To access internet, users in Zone A required to authenticate and also proper traffic shaping policies are applied for their internet access. I also want to authenticate…
  • Slow/Freezing SMB Traffic over Sophos XG Gateway Opening

    Hello, since adding the Sophos XG as man in the middle / gatway to our network, we have speed issues more or less, specially over SMB. At moment the XG is connectet over 1 gig port to the main switch, the main switch has sub switches, at main switch…
  • Web based traffic shaping not working - Sophos xg v19.5

    Hi, I have configured Web based traffic shaping for YouTube but when checking in connection list it shows no traffic shaping policy and when checking through task manager it shows bandwidth exceeding from the configured QoS policy. I have also tried…
  • Traffic Shaping for Rules not working in SOPHOS xg v19.5.1

    Hi, I'm trying to configure traffic shaping policy for "rules". What I want to achieve is to apply traffic shaping on rules where whole subnet is selected in source Networks. Configuration includes: Policy association: Rules Guaranteed Individual…
  • Guarantee QoS for Specific Apps

    Hi All. I want to guarantee 10 MB for Apps like Zoom and MS Teams. I want to know the correct way to setup it. I want to know if I create a traffic policy that apply to "Rules" with the next options is correct: name-> G-10 MB MS Teams and Zoom…
  • Firewall Policy Won't Match on FQDN Destination

    I'm trying to apply traffic shaping to a specific domain. I have *.domain.com as the FQDN in Destination Networks but traffic to this domain still does not get matched. Policy Test confirms that traffic to this domain is skipping the rule altogether.…
  • Is It Possible To Apply A Network Traffic Quota To Clientless Users?

    Hi all! I am fairly new to Sophos XG and I tried a lot of things to accomplish this. Scenario: My ISP has a data cap of 2TB and I would like to cap 2 of my Xbox devices to 400GB each, after that I it would move to the next firewall rule I set…