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…

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…