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the bandwidth cap

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CTho9305

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When I open a bunch of windows, it feels like the forum bursts at high speed, then pauses. Would it be possible to just always limit it to ~56k speeds so there aren't the long pauses but rather a fairly constant speed?
 
AFAIK the bandwidth cap is a 'total bandwidth' cap and doesn't allocate bandwidth on a per-user basis. I don't know if it's really possible to do so without a lot of overhead.

So the cap could be 1GB/hour, and all connections are treated equally under that restriction. Therefore the 'speed' of the forums is inversely related to the # of people using it at any given time. And even when there's ~500 people logged on, there's still some variation (few people sit there and *constantly* load threads) and due to random confluences it's possible that you personally could experience a sudden burst in speed.
 
Actually the way a layer 3 switch does traffic shaping is a burst cap per port, where each port is set to deliver a maximum of X K/s, amongst a few other similar settings.
 
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