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Limiting network speed.

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jsbush

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Is there a way I could limit the speed of my server to say 10kb/sec? Like all the information that my server sends out (if it was a www request or a download of an exe file etc etc, ) to 10kb/sec? Everything be limited to 10kb/sec on that server?


Humm.. I dont' make much sense but it's the best I can do, tonight anyways 😉


Oh it's a Win2k server 😛
 
Easy answer? Sure, lock the NIC into 10Mb/s. That'll actually limit you down to about 5Mb/s, since 10BaseT is half duplex and maxes out at about 50% utilization on an average network.

Can you do it with a software app? I don't think so.. Not a typical question - Most want to get MORE out of it, not less!

- G
 
He's talking about kb/s no Mbits/s. In win2k server IIS, you can do bandwidth throttling, but there was a MS article that said that for speeds as low as you're talking about, the throttling isn't effective. It's just too small to regulate.

 
What you're talking about doing (throttling the speed of each connection on the server without the software knowing about it) would require a hacked TCP/IP implementation.

The server software itself could implement throttling pretty easily at Layer 7, but if you want to try to accomplish the same thing at Layer 4 and below, it would require what I mentioned above. Not easy to do, but it's probably been done SOMEWHERE.
 
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