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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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how to limit skype bandwidth?

I am using ubuntu 14.04. I need to limit skype bandwidth so I could solve problem with video calls. I have same problem with skype as guy from this link http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-archive/...
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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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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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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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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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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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Traffic shaping with TC/wondershaper does not work

I'm trying to set up traffic throttling with wondershaper, using what seems to be a textbook solution --- wondershaper script --- as heartily recommended here and described here. This does not work ...
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Monitor CPU and bandwidth usage of cpu and save to csv

I would like to monitor a specific process. I need to know timestamp, CPU usage (%) and Bandwidth (tcp upload and download in % or byte/s) of this process. I have tried something like this: ps -Ao ...
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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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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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How do I work out what is using the bandwidth on my site?

Please forgive me if this is a basic question, but I have searched around and haven't found an answer yet. I am a developer on a web site that is hosted on a Ubuntu server. I do not have full access ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bandwith monitoring in a network

We have a Internal lab system with some four physical machines. In four physical machines we have three machines with XenServer installed which is have XenVms and One Machine with Virtual box ...
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Squid LAN network Per user Bandwidth monitoring

I have made a small LAN network with a ubuntu squid proxy server. The proxy server runs in my laptop with VMware where it is placed in between the ADSL router and 4 port switch. I have added 3 user ...
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What could be causing throughput issues?

I'm experiencing some crazy issues regarding my internet speed using Ubuntu 15.04. I can't get anything greater than 10Mbps down,but I'm achieve 30 Mbps up. My laptop doesn't have an Ethernet port, ...
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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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Monitoring tool for Ubuntu

I am running a Ubuntu server for NAT and DHCP services in my Office. What monitoring tool can be used to remotely monitor server performance, DHCP lease addresses, IP Lease statistics, monitor ...
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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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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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