Questions tagged [bandwidth-control]
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How to calculate Contention Ratio
I am managing network for a college which provides shared internet access to students and employees. I have been asked to find the contention ratio for the internet provided. Is it the ratio of users sharing the connection?

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Proxmox Virtual Machine Bandwidth monitoring
I have been trying to find some tool to allow me to monitor and get stats from virtual machine network usage.
I have a proxmox host with several virtual machines, and I would like to have some sort of bandwidth monitoring, to allow me to stop…

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How does a router without QoS decide bandwidth distribution?
I've been searching for this and from what little I've found modern day routers try to balance internet bandwidth as fairly as possible. (I'm using a Asus AC66U myself)
For example, if I have a 100 Mbit internet connection and two clients want to…

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zeroshell qos global bandwidth maximum vs guaranteed
When using Zeroshell QoS what is the difference between the maximum and guaranteed bandwidth when talking about the global bandwidth for the interface?
I understand the difference for each of the classes but how does the guaranteed value apply to…

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Dynamic bandwidth limitation with pfSense
Currently we have a squid proxy to access internet. A single download can saturate the lines and in this circumstance a second user experiences extremely poor performance trying to surf the web.
I try to better clarify what I'm complaining…

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95/5 Network Billing - cap speeds once close to using up 5%
Is anyone aware of a good way to limit overages due to 95/5 burstable billing by capping a server's bandwidth once it gets close to having large peaks more than 5% of the time during the month?
I'm guessing a cron job could be used to poll the…

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Bandwidth Policing on Linux gateway - not QoS
I have a linux server providing NAT to a large subnet (/16) using iptables to-destination + multiple external ip's to survive port exhaustion.
I've looked at using tc / htb such as here Limiting bandwidth on internal interface on Linux gateway but…

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Metering/monitoring wifi usage on multi-building campus
I am planning to design a multi-building wifi network for a facility with several thousand visitors (each visitor remaining on site for a month). I need to ensure no single user is hogging massive amounts of bandwidth. If so, I need to be able to…

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Apache: Limit Traffic per domain or file
On my Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Server with Apache/2.4.7, I'm hosting a website. Soon, I plan to publish a large file for which I expect a high number of downloads.
I want to restrict the percentage of traffic allocated for downloads of this file so that…

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Individuals able to hit our bandwidth cap... Only a recent phenomenon?
We have a 10Mbps (synchronous) connection with our ISP. Recently we have discovered that if a single user is watching Netflix, or if I run Windows Update on a PC, we will totally saturate that 10Mbps and the rest of the users in the company (~200…

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vnstats // stats showing large tx amount
I have installed vnstat 2 days ago; the site got something like 20k+ visits in this time frame.
I can read a rx value of 2.16Gb but a tx value of 61.2Gb. Feels like something's going wrong. How should I interpret this ? Where could such a large…

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Limit bandwidth in cisco router with policy-map doesn't work
I have a problem with my scenario in limiting bandwidth of ubuntu PC in GNS3 with class-map and policy-map. this is my topology in GNS3:
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Symantec LiveUpdate Location Based Bandwidth Throttling
I have been lumped with our Symantec Endpoint responsibilities, and would like to look at fixing a long term issue we've been having of LiveUpdate smashing the links to our smaller sites.
I've done a bit of digging around Symantec's site, but can't…

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Brute force attack on my servers ports burning through bandwidth
Am having some form of brute force attack being done to my server and I have a screenshot of what's happening below. Remote Address 121.14.154.206 is somehow abusing all of my ports and burning through my bandwidth at an incredible rate.
Does anyone…

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Can I limit my autoSSH Tunneling Speed with trickle and ssh config file option?
When I use only ~$ autossh site1 it work perfectly, but whit trickle the pameter site1 is considered as DNS Name instead of conf block.
User@VM:~$ sudo trickle -d 10 -u 10 -- autossh site1
[sudo] password for User:
ssh: Could not resolve hostname…

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