If your edge gateway is connected via SIM card, you may be looking for ways to reduce its data usage in order to reduce costs. This article outlines all possibilities to reduce your edge gateway's data usage.

• Turn off VPN when you do not need it (instructions).
  • Note that turning off VPN disables VPN, HTTP EasyControl, and VNC EasyControl features, because these rely on the edge gateway's VPN connection to function.
• Change the VPN connection type to UDP (instructions).
• Remove fallback connection types (failover) if these are not needed (instructions).
• If fallback connection types cannot be removed, change the tracking settings.
  • The tracking settings to determine how fast the edge gateway changes to another connection type when a connection type becomes (un)available. To change these settings:
    1. Go to the device's WAN settings in the Fleet Manager.
    2. At Internet priority, click Edit, and open the tracking settings .
    3. Increase the Tracking interval (default: 5 seconds) or remove some of the tracking IP addresses.
• Turn off internet access for the machine network if this is not needed (instructions).
  • This does not affect the edge gateway's internet access. It only affects the internet access for devices connected to the edge gateway's LAN side and is turned off by default.