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My computer renters are consuming a lot of bandwidth, which cause some consumers to complain about low bandwidth.

How could I balance the maximum bandwidth or the maximum download speed globally (all softwares in a computer, Orbit, all browsers, etc.)?

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I think this is not a programming question, but some kind of sysadmin question, which belongs on serverfault.com – Frederik Gheysels Dec 27 '10 at 6:49
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Is this question more relevant to something like serverfault.com or webmasters.stackexchange.com – Dean Burge Dec 27 '10 at 6:50
Use QoS. If you want a more complete answer, we need a complete question. – Chris S♦ Dec 27 '10 at 14:41
What sort of traffic? Is QoS already in use? – Ablue Dec 29 '10 at 3:06
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There is an old script out there called "Wonder Shaper" which I use for this purpose; something is wrong with my DSL if I try and upload large files at the full bandwidth available; it causes a stall and dies (SCP/SFTP, etc.) so I have to limit the network stack for the whole laptop before uploading.

http://lartc.org/wondershaper/

I use the v1.1a listed there on Fedora without any problems, for my 6mbit AT&T DSL I use:

DOWNLINK=6000
UPLINK=600
DEV=eth1

...which "fixes" the problem at the slight cost of slow uploads. You can start/stop Wonder Shaper dynamically as well, it doesn't need to be enabled as a daemon or at boot time. This script should be exactly what you need.

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