Did you mean to say you are 4mbps at your branch and 30mbps at your HQ? Or your Gre tunnel is shaped to 4mvps between. Branch and HQ?
Not sure what your business application requirements are and what your corporate Internet policy is, but 4mbps for a branch of 250 users sounds low. 
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On 27/08/2013, at 12:21 PM, Imran Ali <immrccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> what  i  mean is what  is the amount of  traffic  that we need to upgrade
> to  as 4 meg is not sufficient  . close to 250 users
> 
> Though the main internet is 30 meg ... i  think i can  set up  one policy
> OUTBOUND on GRE tunnel on HQ that  is connecting  to this branch
> to note down  what traffic  HQ is sending to SP cloud  ....in cloud  SP is
> rate limiting it to 4 meb.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Carlos G Mendioroz <tron_at_huapi.ba.ar>wrote:
> 
>> What do you mean by "realistic" ?
>> Many BW consumers are "elastic" in the sense that they will consume
>> whatever you provide.
>> If you don't have a fixed set of apps that you know what they need, the
>> only way to define BW is via policy...
>> 
>> -Carlos
>> 
>> Imran Ali @ 27/08/2013 06:15 -0300 dixit:
>>> Hi all ,
>>> 
>>> we have a new   branch office that is now connected to HQ via  gre vpn.
>>> Branch users are getting internet from HQ.
>>> 
>>> Pipe from HQ  to branch  is  fixed  to   4 mb
>>> 
>>> pipe  from HQ  to sp (internet)  is   fixed at  30 meg bw
>>> 
>>> now how can i monitor what bandwidth will  be realistic  for the added
>>> branch .
>>> 
>>> As  most of traffic  is  returning  internet web/ftp responses , if  i
>>> implement qos monitor service policy that will  obviously show 4 meg ..
>>> thats because its been rate limited. to that value .
>>> 
>>> 
>>> the outbound traffic is very low ..only dns requests/web requests and
>> voip
>>> requests
>>> 
>>> setting any qos meter  style policy only measures outbound .
>>> 
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