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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usb 2-1.6: cannotsubmit urb 0, error -28: not enought bandwidth

Afther an updated to 6.5.0-14, i can start ubuntu, i have the error "usb 2-1.6: cannotsubmit urb 0, error -28: not enought bandwidth" at initial screen. I have try to start in recovery mode ...
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Bandwidth rate for specific IP (bash scripting)

I can watch live bandwidth rate using tcptrack -i ens3 src or dst IP But I need to use it in bash script Are any tools which could return current bandwidth rate for given IP? Like in tcptrack in the ...
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How to run command when a specific network interface has low outgoing bandwidth for a specific time period?

How to run command when a specific network interface has low outgoing bandwidth for a specific time period? enp7s0 [192.168.0.101] (1/4): ============================= Incoming: ...
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How to reserve internet bandwidth for a server (Ubuntu 22.04)

How to reserve internet bandwidth for a server? I know I can limit bandwidth but I want to do the opposite thing. What I mean by that is I want to have always reserved 200Mb/s of upload and download ...
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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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How do you test the network speed between two boxes?

I have a gigabit network set up in my house and a few Ubuntu based boxes. Out of complete curiosity I would like to check the speed between the two boxes. I am not having any problems with speed or ...
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How do I find out which process is eating up my bandwidth?

I think I'm being the victim of a bug here. Sometimes while I'm working (I still don't know why), my network traffic goes up to 200 KB/s and stays that way, even tough I'm not doing anything internet-...
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Logitech BRIO complains: current rate 16000 is different from the runtime rate 48000

Whenever I plug in a Logitech BRIO webcam into any USB port on my motherboard, I get the message: current rate 16000 is different from the runtime rate 48000 usb 2-8: new SuperSpeed USB device number ...
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How to calculate the UDP input Bitrate and Output Bitrate

How to Calculate the UDP Bitrate and information(UDP Input bitrate and UDP Output bitrate) Like ffprobe Input #0, mpegts, from 'udp://269.1.1.104:1001': Duration: N/A, start: 25881.121689, bitrate: ...
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How can you monitor total internet data usage across reboots?

Some broadband providers impose a monthly download limit, charging extra if you go over. It is also quite easy to exceed some of the lower limits just by installing/updating packages and 'normal' ...
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usr/lib/snapd/snapd uses much bandwidth

My problem is with snapd. When I connect my pc to my mobile hotspot, my pc downloads lots of data. I downloaded nethogs and I saw usr/lib/snapd/snapd downloads sometimes with mb/s. I thought this ...
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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)
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Stress the bandwidth and disk read in linux

I need to trigger HighBandwidth and high disk read for my alert testing purpose. So does anyone knows any Linux command to trigger HighBandwidth(transmitted and received) at 70GB as well as disk read ...
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Thunderbolt bandwidth monitoring

I'm looking for a tool to monitor the current Thunderbolt bandwidth usage (in Gbits/s). Is there such a thing? I'm running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
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The kernel is telling me that PCIe bandwidth is limited

From my kernel messages: 126.016 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link at 0000:16:00.0 (capable of 252.048 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link) My Supermicro X11-SRM-F has ...
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limit data usage of discord

As far as my research took me, there is no way to set discord to manually reduce video quality. It can reduce it, but only if your bandwidth is poor. If your bandwidth is good, but the data plan is ...
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Why ubuntu software updaes are significantly larger than windows and android?

i have recognized that updating a software in ubuntu needs much more data trasnsfer than windows and android. for example, today i update firefox 88 to firefox 88.0.1. in ubuntu, it downloaded about ...
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Download utility with dynamic bandwidth control

I am looking for a CLI download tool that can change the bandwidth limit during downloading. Most CLI download tools I know can set a bandwidth limit, but the limit can not be changed during ...
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only fetch the diff when I run apt update on mobile phone with monthly data limit?

I am running Ubuntu 20.04. I connect to internet via mobile phone with monthly data limit. When I run apt update it fetches about 60 MB data from repositories. Is there a way to only fetch the diff ...
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Limit bandwidth usage of "do-release-upgrade -d"

I'd like to upgrade a 15.10 server to 16.04 LTS beta* using do-release-upgrade -d. This is a ~2GB download and I'd like to limit the bandwidth usage of the upgrade. This is possible by setting "...
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WIFI hotspot only running at 144mbps@5GHz but should be much faster Alfa Network AWUS1900

I own an Alfa Network AWUS1900 wireless adapter which I use to create a 5GHz hotspot in Ubuntu, which is running in VMWare Workstation under a Windows10-host, which both use the same network. The ...
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How to restrict bandwidth at system service level? Can each service be routed via a different network interface?

So. Here is what I am trying to do. I have a Ubuntu server (20.04) with the below three systemd services that I created. Each run its own application that keep uploading and downloading data from the ...
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Which process is using my network data?

Short question: In Ubuntu, how can I find out how much network data each process has used at a certain time interval (e.g., last hour, last day, ...)? Long question: I am connecting my Ubuntu machine ...
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Where does nload get the bandwidth data from?

tl;dr The bandwidth usage recorded by nload (home page) is higher than what's provided by tcpdump (home page). There seems to be a difference in bandwidth usage when I run tcpdump -e -w - | pv -a >...
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How can I set the speed for every person who visits my site and download from it?

I installed ubuntu18 server and uploaded my own site ... How can I set the speed for every person who visits my site and download from it ???
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How to know bandwidth of wifi router for Ubuntu by command?

I'd like to know bandwidth of Wi-Fi router by command from terminal. Please help me. Thank you in advance.
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How do I monitor bytes transferred in an Internet connection?

When I connect to the Internet in Xubuntu 19.04, there is an item in the Network Connections menu in the upper right corner of the desktop labeled "Connection Information", but it doesn't tell me how ...
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Bandwidth Aggregation with multiple 3G cards?

I have multiple 3G data Cards as well as a wired connection to the Internet. I can connect each of them separately and access the internet. Is there any way i can aggregate the bandwidth of these ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Bandwidth Throttling?

Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS New Install: Upload Bandwith ~4 Mbit/s Ubuntu 16.04 LTS New Install: Upload Bandwith ~100 Mbit/s After Dist Upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04.02 LTS: Upload Bandwith: ~4 Mbit/s ...
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Network bandwidth limitation in KVM

I'm having difficulties finding out how to limit network bandwidth for my VM. The results I found searching the web that libvirt already includes this function, but I can't find it anywhere. Using the ...
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Why does libreoffice soffice.bin process CONSTANTLY RECEIVE internet bandwidth ? Malware ? Virus ? What?

Why does libreoffice soffice.bin process CONSTANTLY RECEIVE internet traffic ? This is according to BOTH NetHogs and Gnome System Monitor. I was curious about KB/sec internet IO numbers that ...
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VPS bandwidth spike exactly once every hour

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 on a digitalocean droplet. Here you can see the DigitalOcean bandwidth monitor graph As you can see in the image the spikes occur exactly once every hour. According to the ...
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vnstat - combine WiFi and Ethernet usage together

My laptop has two network interfaces enp59s0 and wlp60s0. Historically I've always used the Ethernet card (enp59s0) so using vnstat to get network consumption for today, yesterday, current week and ...
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How to slow down internet connection?

I have a very large download to perform which is low priority. Can I throttle back the networking speed of my Ubuntu 18.10 so this download does not bog down my connection which is shared with other ...
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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 ...
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Inconstant Bandwidth despite Bandwidth Limitation in VirtualBox

In VirtualBox, I have two Ubuntu 18.04 VMs running on an Ubuntu 18.04 host. My target is to simulate network traffic between the two VMs (one as a Server, one as a Client). Therefore I set the VM ...
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Hyperthreading Xeon CPU E5 2680 0 @ 2.7GHz

I'd like to verify whether my server set Hyper-threading, and the way to it. lscpu shows Thread per core is "2" sudo dmidecode shows HTT (Multi-threading). I expected HTT (Hyper-threading ...
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Display total received data (from network history in System Monitor) in the Unity Panel

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04. Is there a way to display the total received data which is available in the network history of System monitor tool, on the Unity Panel? I have limited amount of bandwidth ...
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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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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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Ubuntu terminal not using complete bandwidth

I recently install Ubuntu 16.04 and have noticed that the terminal does not use my Internet connection to full capacity. While D/L speeds on my windows 10 go up to 500kBps (Torrenting) Ubuntu terminal ...
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How I can limit Download/Upload bandwidth?

How I can limit Download/Upload bandwidth for: Entire OS. One network interface. Single application.
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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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Why is internet upload so high when I don't actually upload much?

Total Monthly Internet Bandwidth I use vnstat to monitor internet usage: $ vnstat rx / tx / total / estimated eth0: Jul '17 210.70 GiB / 51....
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How to limit the network bandwidth usage in Virtual box [duplicate]

I am using Virtual box 5.1.22 on Ubuntu 16.04. I need to limit the bandwidth of the Internet connection (more precisely the upload speed) being used by an application running on Windows 7(a Virtual ...
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Is there GUI software that can show how much bandwidth a user on my home network is using?

Are there any GUI applications I can use to see how much bandwidth a user on my home network is using? I use Ubuntu 16.04.
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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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Snapd consuming bandwidth from time to time

I didn't install any snap package so for, but sometimes the snapd process is using the bandwidth. Is this activity normal ? What is the snap deamon downloading ? snap list returns : Name Version ...
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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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Is there a way to limit the bandwidth that Software Center uses? [duplicate]

Whenever I am downloading packages using Ubuntu Software Center (or any package manager for that matter), my Internet connection slows to an absolute crawl. In fact, most requests timeout. Is there a ...