Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred from one point to another in a set period of time. Usually bandwidth is associated with Internet network connection speed.
Questions tagged [bandwidth]
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GUI app for Bandwidth Shaping (Internet Speed Limiter)
This is a similar question to this one: How do I limit internet bandwidth? but in this case I am looking for a GUI app.
The other question was 2+ years ago so a GUI might be available that I could use to not only monitor but also change the maximum…

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Is there an easy way to limit user bandwidth usage?
Is there an easy way to limit user bandwidth usage to say 10kpbs? Other users should not be affected. The best I've found is tc, but it seems way too complicated to do such a simple thing.

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How do I control the upload/download bandwidth per user?
How to control bandwidth upload and download per user or each ip/mac?
i tried squid3.0stable25 with delay_pools but its not work. is it really possible to control bandwidth for each host by squid? my isp have 400 more host but they are using open…

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Using trickle to limit the bandwidth of a VirtualBox VM
I'm trying to limit the bandwidth of a virtual machine running via VirtualBox.
trickle -d 5 virtualbox doesn't work, I believe because of an issue with child processes
(trickle -d 5 sudo apt-get upgrade doesn't work either)
How can I limit the…

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How can i allocate bandwidth among users more than given rate?
if i have limit the amount of bandwidth among all users lets say for 2mbps for each. But if there is more bandwidth available how can i let users have more bandwidth like 7 mbps or 8 mbps for particular type of traffic (using tc)?

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Losing bandwidth
I have installed Ubuntu Linux 11.10.
My bandwidth is being used up.
Using nethogs eth0 shows that /usr/bin/python is sending and receiving all the time.
Using netstat -tup showed that the address 48293.kwaimuk.canonical:https is using up my…

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Computer hogging bandwidth, how do I find out what it is?
My computer is hogging the house bandwidth and I have not idea why? Could it be a virus? How do I find out?

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Log local network traffic into file
I want to log the receive data speeds of a NIC card in linux into a text file. What is the best way to do something like this (not afraid of using terminal)