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How to limit bandwidth usage for a specific user

By: Author Alex Lim

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Categories Networking

This article describes how to limit bandwidth usage for a specific user.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

The following is a step-by-step guide on how to limit bandwidth usage for specific users:

Step 1: Create addresses.

Create addresses.

Step 2: Create Traffic Shapers.

Create Traffic Shapers.

Step 3: Create a Shaping Policy.

Create a Shaping Policy.

Step 4: Based on this configuration, a normal user should be limited to 5Mbps and a priority user should be limited to 100Mbps.

Normal user test results:

Normal user test results.

Priority user test results:

Priority user test results.