Do Bandwidth Management With Limits

Do Bandwidth Management With Limits

Overview

SafeSquid Limits feature allows you to define the bandwidth limits on Download size, Upload size and Download speed. This document helps you to configure the above three features.

Prerequisites

If you are downloading files from HTTPS websites, then make sure that HTTPS Inspection in SafeSquid is enabled

Access The SafeSquid User Interface

Go to configure --> Restriction policies --> Speed Limits
The home page will see same as below
Access Speed Limits under restriction policies section to Do Bandwidth Management With Limits
Edit global policy section to Do Bandwidth Management With Limits
Enabled global policy section as True to Do Bandwidth Management With Limits
Save global policy section as True to Do Bandwidth Management With Limits 
Default entries under set limits section to Do Bandwidth Management With Limits

How Default Entries work

First entry is created to setup the download speed at which the users allowed to download the files
Second entry is created to setup the limit on the download size. If the file is greater than the download transfer limit, then it gets blocked by SafeSquid
Third entry is created to setup the upload limit on upload size. If the uploading file size is greater than upload transfer limit, then the upload gets blocked by SafeSquid.




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