Speed Limit from Client Devices to WAN interface is not working

[Cloufish]

Hi Team

I'm struggling with setting up a simple speed limit with the schedule to WAN
I want to limit my internet bandwidth at certain hours

I have this rule at the top, so it should always apply, right?
There's also another Default rule to allow traffic at the bottom

You can see right away, that there are no states in the first rule

I have an alias defined:

And a schedule:

I have the limiters set in this firewall rule

And I also have limiters defined I think in a good way

[Cloufish]

I've added Inverse Alias Matching Default Allow LAN
And it works

I still don't understand because:

• If it was an issue with Client Devices not requesting WAN Traffic, then I wouldn't need to inverse match on Default Allow LAN

There's probably a network protocol through which traffic went? I'm really a newbie in Networking...

[johnpoz]

@Cloufish there is a difference between traffic that would go out your wan interface to get somewhere, and wan address as your destination. It would rare that a client would actually ever try to go to your specific wan address.

Your wan address is just that the IP address on your wan interface, say 1.2.3.4 if public. your wan net is just the network 1.2.3.0/24 that your wan is on.. Some client to go to an Ip on the internet say 5.6.7.8 or 8.8.8.8 would never have your wan address or wan network as the destination. The destination would be those 5.6.7.8 or 8.8.8.8 Ips