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September 20, 2020
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Traffic Shaping and speedtest

  • September 20, 2020
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Traffic Shaper

I have traffic shaper policy . even if i reduce the download speed speedtest shows the maximum bandwidth

for example if I change to 10 Mbps ,it shows 100 Mbps

Thanks

 

    Best answer by lobstercreed

    Are you using reverse shaper in your shaping policy?  Download traffic is reverse (i.e. connection initiated by PC, so a normal shaper will only apply to upload speed)

     

    Also be aware of which method (shaping policy vs policy-based shaping) will take precedence as per this: https://kb.fortinet.com/kb/documentLink.do?externalID=FD46556

     

    The SD-WAN course that Fortinet currently offers for free explains shaping pretty well in module 4:

    https://training.fortinet.com/course/view.php?id=4125

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    lobstercreed
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    September 20, 2020

    Are you using reverse shaper in your shaping policy?  Download traffic is reverse (i.e. connection initiated by PC, so a normal shaper will only apply to upload speed)

     

    Also be aware of which method (shaping policy vs policy-based shaping) will take precedence as per this: https://kb.fortinet.com/kb/documentLink.do?externalID=FD46556

     

    The SD-WAN course that Fortinet currently offers for free explains shaping pretty well in module 4:

    https://training.fortinet.com/course/view.php?id=4125

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