Questions tagged [bandwidth]
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.
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Is it possible to ruduce background network use when on mobile wifi hotspot
Short version: What is the easiest way to temporarily reduce the amount of background network traffic to a minimum?
Long Version: I'm connecting to a mobile wi-fi hotspot hosted by my cell phone, If ...
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Limit bandwidth of my WiFi card [duplicate]
I am trying to install a vagrant instance while I am sitting in a group on a congress. Since we don't have such a big bandwidth here, I would like to limit the bandwidth of the initial download of the ...
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Ubuntu as a bandwidth throttling box on windows network
I need to test the performance of some applications over different capacity connections (broadband, EFM, LAN extension etc). How would i configure an Ubuntu server to sit between the main network (17....
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How can I access network statistics (like bandwith/data usage) in logs for the past 2 weeks?
I want to extract network statistics of past two weeks. It should contain information like the uploads and downloads, also the network speed (bandwith ) I received.
I tried system monitor, but ...
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How can I see the amount of data I am Downloading / Uploading per day?
I want a command line feature to show me how much data I am using each day / week / month. It needs to show speed as well as data usage.
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Measure bandwidth used by a single program execution
I'd like to measure the bandwidth consumed by a single program launch (for processes launched from cron, in order to get an idea of how much BW they are using). I know of nethogs and the many other ...
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What's eating my internet bandwidth? Incompatibility between nethogs and System Monitor's Network History
When I open System Monitor, the Network History shows that there are ~64 KiB/s being downloaded constantly. And it's not my doing! So I wanted to see which application is downloading and I installed ...
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Drop connection if upload speed exceed specific value
I have a media server installed to my Ubuntu machine. I want to limit incoming data to my server per connection for uploads and if a specific bandwidth is exceeded, their connection will be dropped.
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Internet bandwidth consumption monitor process wise monitoring? [duplicate]
I had some three or four askubuntu pages open in my firefox's tabs, and the pages suddenly started responding extremely slow. I checkd the system monitor, and it showed huge amounts of data being ...
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Ubuntu Server bandwith monitoring
I run a program on ubuntu server that runs 24/7, I'm after a program that can measure the amount of bandwith it uses (Download and Upload seperate if possible), I need to be able to see it capturing ...
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Is there any linux in built application or any method to find the network usage(data usage) of the internet connection?
Is there any linux in built application or any method to find the network usage(data usage) of the internet connection? I know there are many softwares that can be installed into os for this purpose. ...
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Can we create bandwidth Limit for all users [duplicate]
Can we create bandwidth limits for all users?
I want to share internet through my Ubuntu Server. Is this possible or not?
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Can I cap the monthly network transfer of a process?
I'm looking for a way to monitor and/or cap the monthly network transfer of an Ubuntu Server 12.04 process. I'm running a Plex Media Server, and while my current ISP is very lax on my bandwidth usage, ...
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How to Stop Oracle Java proccess ; eat internet bandwidth and processer
I installed oracle Java 7 on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit. when i check my Internet bandwidth while do nothing on the Internet in system monitor->resource data is sent and received.
When i look in process tab ...
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Limit download speed if filesize 20mb
Is there a software like trickle lets say for example?
That i can put as a proxy and lets say set it up so that if a filesize that i am downloading is over 20MB it will limit it to 2kb?
I found ...
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Is it possible to set on-peak and off-peak hours in vnstat for monitoring bandwidth?
I have recently downloaded vnstat to monitor my Internet bandwidth usage. I have a limited data plan but my ISP provides unmetered bandwidth during off-peak hours (2:00 AM to 8:00 AM). So, I would ...
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Long waiting List for Internet: What are these IP addresses?
I am having a problem of slow Internet Browsing speed.
When I checked it with NetHogs there was a huge list waiting for Internet.
What are these IP addresses ? How can I find them ?
Is it due to a ...
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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 ...
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Long term bandwidth monitoring by port
I represent a reasonably popular game server community here in Australia. We rent a dedicated server that has limited bandwidth. In the last couple of days we have seen a huge spike in our bandwidth ...
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BandWidth Monitor
New to Ubuntu, I want a application which monitor my Bandwidth usage in GUI for Particular time. Is any application is available for my requirement?
For ex: If I need to monitor for a month at a ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 eat a lot of internet bandwidth
I don't know when this problem start to happen, but whenever I use Ubuntu on my computer, my whole house network is down. But when I switch back to windows, the whole house network is back again. Is ...
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Bandwidth management in ubuntu?
I am doing my project on Bandwidth control and management. So I am looking for good bandwidth management software in ubuntu.
Anyone can suggest me a best Bandwidth management software for ubuntu, ...
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How can I change the time zone of bandwidthd?
Is there any way to change the UTC offset for the graphs generated by bandwidthd?
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How to monitor USB webcam bandwidth usage?
I would like to find out the amount of bandwidth my USB webcam occupies while I'm using it. I would prefer a command line solution.
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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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Is there a way to download updates differentially rather than via .deb files? [duplicate]
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When will Ubuntu include delta updates?
In the old days, you downloaded or installed packages from a CD, and then a year later you got the new version of your distribution. ...
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GUI for running network statistics or bandwidth limiter?
Is there a networking statistics app or indicator for Ubuntu that can measure how much I download/upload every day/week/month and so forth?
I'm also looking for something similar that can limit my ...
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How do I limit the upload speed of Transmission client to below 5kB/s?
I want to restrict the upload speed of my transmission client to 1kB/s, is it possible?
What changes do I need to make to lower the upload speed?
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Bandwidth monitoring indicator? [duplicate]
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What Application Indicators are available?
Is there an app for bandwidth monitoring indicator particularly that be placed on the top panel for Unity? Something similar to ...
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Updating repo issue must be changed in Ubuntu [closed]
What do you all think about the 11 to 14 MBs of data during updating the repository index files (with sudo apt-get updates) of the installed Ubuntu or other Linux OS to just get a piece of ...
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All my bandwidth eaten up - report included
I have my network bandwidth eaten up totally. Whenever I connect my network, without any application being opened it is always full.
I have prepared report of iftop, nethogs and network system ...
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How to reduce the Update Manager's bandwidth usage and download volume?
The Ubuntu "Software Up To Date" is now becoming painful like Windows.
Every time the update check starts, it takes ages to "update cache" and hogs all the internet bandwidth. How to reduce the ...
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Ubuntu Server - downloading speed suddenly reduced to < 5KB/sec
This happens on some of my Ubuntu servers but not all. I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu server 12.04 and when began to install updates, my 600kb/sec download speed is suddenly cut to 3kb/sec ...
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Server bandwidth monitoring program having Web interface
I am looking around for a simple program that will log how much bandwidth has been used by my server. This should preferably be presented in a web interface.
Information /summary/functionality I'm ...
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how to force download on one network and upload on another
lets say that i have an apache server running, and two network cards.
each card is connected to a different network.
C1 is connected to N1, which is an ADSL connection with the port 80 open (so i ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How can I increase the bandwidth sharing between processes? [duplicate]
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Is there a way to limit the bandwidth that Software Center uses?
How can I increase the bandwidth sharing between processes? I mean, sometimes i am updating ubuntu and the ...
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Where to get cgidemo of vnstat?
I have installed vnstat and now I would like to have statistics in my browser like this:
You can see working script here. Where can I get that cgidemo script?
Source: http://humdi.net/vnstat/
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web browsing vs. torrent traffic, and bandwidth priority?
recently i did download big torrent files. (120 Gb). and i need to seed them back to at least 1.5 ratio. my upload speed is 130 Kb/s max.
the problem is that i need to seed them as fast as possible. ...
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How do I detect if someone is stealing my broadband bandwidth?
I am very paranoid about wireless connections and someone stealing my broadband bandwidth, which could lead to worse things.
My question is, how can I detect if my broadband bandwidth is being stolen?...
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How do I control the upload/download bandwidth per user? [duplicate]
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 ...
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Limiting internet bandwidth for already started applications
This question is similar to this: How do I limit internet bandwidth?. But the wondershaper and trickle cannot limit internet bandwidth for already started applications. So, how can I limit internet ...
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Why doesn't Transmission respect my 1 KB/sec upload limit?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, and have a question about the network activity of Transmission 2.22. Even though I set the global upload limit to 1kbs/s or even 0kb/s, my System Monitor/Conky shows a steady ...
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What Internet bandwidth speed tools are available?
Is there any applications on Ubuntu that could measure your bandwidth/download speed?
I would like to start a few downloads and use a bandwidth monitor like application that will give me the total ...
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Internet Monitoring & Control tools
I'm looking for an application for monitoring internet usage and controlling bandwidth speed and quotas for each user/MAC in a centralized server for a small LAN network (less than 100 PCs).
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How to limit download/upload speed for specific users? [duplicate]
I want to setup an ubuntu server in which some users are limited to a specific download/upload speed.Is it possible?
I know about Wondershaper, Trickle or similar tools but I don't want to limit ...
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Priority for HTTP over SSH on server
My file server on the internet runs OpenSSH, where users upload and download files using scp or WinSCP. At the same time, the server runs some web applications (http), which need higher priority.
Is ...
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Would there be any negative side-effects of sharing /var/cache/apt/ between two systems?
In the interest of conserving bandwidth, I'm considering mounting a VirtualBox host's /var/cache/apt as /var/cache/apt in the guest. Both host and guest are Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit. Would there be any ...
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Can some one suggest a software to monitor and maintain record of total internet bandwidth usage
Can some one suggest a software for a small home network to monitor the amount uploaded / download from the internet but not the local traffic on the LAN. I know there are similar questions like these
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