Traffic‑shaping rules are enforced per client flow, not as a single shared cap per destination or per rule. If you set 1 Mbps on a rule, each matching client flow can get up to 1 Mbps. Ten clients each pulling a Dell payload can therefore add up to 10 Mbps, etc. This is explicitly documented: Traffic and Bandwidth Shaping - Cisco Meraki Documentation Even if you found downloads.dell.com, Dell update agents often use CDNs and multiple hostnames (e.g., Akamai, edge servers that don't resolve to the exact FQDN you defined). The Meraki classification engine uses SNI, certificate CN, DNS information, IP/port heuristics, etc, to associate flows with applications/hosts, but if the flows don't have downloads.dell.com as the SNI, or are obtained from different hostnames/IPs learned via DNS, your custom single-host expression won't capture them all. Traffic Analysis and Classification - Cisco Meraki Documentation
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