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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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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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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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 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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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 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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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