Hi, im trying to apply this guide https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000035653?language=en_US to my setup but it doesnt work, does anybody if i can set a bandwith limit for a complete group? As you can see, the limit doesnt work.…

I followed all the directions for creating a traffic shaping policy and applying it to a rule based on these instructions: https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000035652?language=en_US#related-information Unfortunately, what happens is…

hi, 1)the ISP provides us bandwidth of say 100Mbps (mega bits per second). when i see the system graphs it show the interface data transfer in KBits/s (kilo bits). in traffic shaping window i am unable to understand what KB/s stands for, whether it…

I have a problem with Sophos XG home firewall, from recently internet connection getting too much slow as a comparison to previous. So I check with it ISP and their side wasn't any problem. (also I bypassed the firewall and connected my laptop directly…

I created a "traffic shaping default" in applications for youtube to limit it's bandwidth usage. Set the bandwidth with to 2kB( So it should be very slow). In the firewall rule i checked "Apply application-based traffic shaping policy". I am still…

Hi a common issue we face is as customers sites expand the QOS policies need to be adjusted or expanded to deal with the increased devices or bandwidth required for such a service.Unfortunately troubleshooting issues like these are difficult at times…

Hello, yestarday i moved from pfsense to sophos xg whit home license Everthing is working i like th ui but one thing i dont understand is how to setup qos? My speeds is 3 Mbps upload and 60 Mbps down its VDSL connection on pppoe What i want…

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…

Hi, Need advice from somebody who knows well about VoIP. Our VoIP phones works fine as long we allow all traffic through the firewall :( We don't use any PBX server, the phones connect directly to the provider. SIP as been disabled as recommended…

We have an existing traffic shaping policy for all users on the network. Now i want to create an additional rule for just 1 client to minimize the bandwidth for that client. I have followed https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/123059 This new user…

Hi, I have created a Guest VLAN (Port1.2) with a DHCP (10.0.0.0/24) to isolate the visitors connected on Unify APs. Unify APs Guest SSID is pointing to this Guest VLAN. ipconfig from a guest computer gives me : 10.0.0.2. So everything works fine and…

We have 2 x WAN links, one as a primary the second as a backup. we have found windows update killing our primary link of late so would like to send all windows update based traffic on the secondary/backup link. We are running a Sophos XG 16.05.8 MR…

I would appreciate if someone can review this rule and confirm this is the best way to set up a tomobile cellspot. I connected the cell spot to the DMZ port. Limit the bandwidth to 30 Mbps = 3750 kB/s. I think I have this right. Also - for some reason…

Hello everybody, we are migrating from Kerio Control to Sophos XG Firewall. We have 2 sites. I've setup a Site2Site VPN between Kerio on Site 2 and an XG210 (ver 17.0.2 MR2) on site A. But on site A i had to revert to Kerio becouse the tunnel was…

Hi Device: XG135 (SFOS 16.05.8 MR-8) I have created a 1 Mbps traffic shaping policy and applied to the firewall rule id 10. This rule allows traffic to only an AWS instance and is routed through secondary gateway ISP. Issue is, even if "Traffic…

I'm attempting to create a traffic shaping policy that restricts all devices on two of my VLANs to a maximum of 6Mbps per host. Trouble is, when I look at the setup guides for traffic shaping it seems that I'm limited to two options: 1. Apply a traffic…

For this question I'll take the web category named "Entertainment". Do note that my question is NOT only for the web filter but for application filter as well. Default traffic shaping policy for User Group A: 10Mbps Default traffic shaping policy…

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…

We are trying to do traffic shaping for some applications that give a guaranteed bandwidth to each user. The application i am trying apply QoS is not listed in XG. How would i add the application onto XG. Its a verified application and hosted on AWS…

I'm missing something. I have several firewall rules that have had their traffic shaping policy setting change to "User's policy applied" but I cannot find where this setting is coming from. So I don't know what traffic shaping is being applied. Since…

I have ip ranges or groups like 192.168.110.1-10 | Group A | Can use facebook | 20mb down, 5mb up 192.168.110.11-254 | Group B | No service | 0mb down, 0mb up 192.168.111.1-254 | Group C | Service without social networks | 10mb down, 2mb up (this…

Hi all, The goal is to restrict 3 applications to a maximum of 10Mbps collectively. the Services are BITS, Microsoft Updates and Windows Updates. I've set the following QoS policy: Policy Association: Applications Rule Type: Limit Limit upload/Download…

HI all, after installing a Sophos XG by a customer users occasionally report an internet line lock. The monitoring exercise showed an excessive bandwidth use of some PC saturating traffic (traffic type was microsoft windows update it seems). We tried…