The Balance 30 in my home office gathers two DSL lines and one 4G connection. I have found that the children’s Xbox, which is attached to the house ethernet network, is using too much of the 4G connection which is intended for office use. I want to block the Xbox from the 4G entirely so that it uses only the DSL lines. I have assigned (I think) a static IP as follows.
Hi Dan. That should do it fine. But what I’d normally do is set an outbound policy – gives you quite a bit more control over the way your WANs are used and you can aggregate all your outbound policies in one place.
Hi Dan
I would also use the “outbound policy” rules as well.
The rule would be very similar to the one you have done in the firewall rules but by using the outbound policy, you are forcing all the traffic from the source device to the specified WAN,
We would also do it by MAC address rather than IP address as the MAC address is permanent but the IP address can be changed even if you have set a static addresses in the DHCP reservation list.
Hope this helps!
This is my effort using an oubound policy rule! I copied and pasted the MAC address from the Status → Client List page, so there should be no mistake there…
The Xbox will do weird stuff if you scatter the traffic like this. You should change it to a Priority based policy and set the list to be DSL1, DSL2 only. That way all traffic will go out a single WAN interface. The Xbox Live services don’t like it when you log in through one WAN and then try to play a game across the other one (I have learned the hard way).
Your settings are correct, just change the “Algorithm” to “Priority” and then include only the DSL links in the available connections area.
Thank you for this. I have two separate DSL routers, each on a different physical phone line. Would the Xbox still perceive it to be a single WAN interface?
If you only want the xbox to use one WAN, set it to “Enforced” this way it will only use the WAN it is enforced to even if that WAN has failed.
If you want it to fail-over to the other WAN if that WAN fails, use the priority rule.
Priority will keep the Xbox traffic to a single LAN link unless it fails. Then the traffic will go to the next wan link in the priority list. As long as your 3g connection isn’t in the priority list, no Cbox traffic will go to it.
