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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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Limiting internet bandwidth for already started applications
This question is similar to this: How do I limit internet bandwidth?. But the wondershaper and trickle cannot limit internet bandwidth for already started applications. So, how can I limit internet ...
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Would there be any negative side-effects of sharing /var/cache/apt/ between two systems?
In the interest of conserving bandwidth, I'm considering mounting a VirtualBox host's /var/cache/apt as /var/cache/apt in the guest. Both host and guest are Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit. Would there be any ...
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Is it possible to set on-peak and off-peak hours in vnstat for monitoring bandwidth?
I have recently downloaded vnstat to monitor my Internet bandwidth usage. I have a limited data plan but my ISP provides unmetered bandwidth during off-peak hours (2:00 AM to 8:00 AM). So, I would ...
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Bandwidth Aggregation with multiple 3G cards?
I have multiple 3G data Cards as well as a wired connection to the Internet. I can connect each of them separately and access the internet. Is there any way i can aggregate the bandwidth of these ...
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Internet Monitoring & Control tools
I'm looking for an application for monitoring internet usage and controlling bandwidth speed and quotas for each user/MAC in a centralized server for a small LAN network (less than 100 PCs).
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How can I change the time zone of bandwidthd?
Is there any way to change the UTC offset for the graphs generated by bandwidthd?
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How can I see the amount of data I am Downloading / Uploading per day?
I want a command line feature to show me how much data I am using each day / week / month. It needs to show speed as well as data usage.
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What Internet bandwidth speed tools are available?
Is there any applications on Ubuntu that could measure your bandwidth/download speed?
I would like to start a few downloads and use a bandwidth monitor like application that will give me the total ...
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How do I limit the upload speed of Transmission client to below 5kB/s?
I want to restrict the upload speed of my transmission client to 1kB/s, is it possible?
What changes do I need to make to lower the upload speed?
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Is there a way to download updates differentially rather than via .deb files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When will Ubuntu include delta updates?
In the old days, you downloaded or installed packages from a CD, and then a year later you got the new version of your distribution. ...
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How to monitor USB webcam bandwidth usage?
I would like to find out the amount of bandwidth my USB webcam occupies while I'm using it. I would prefer a command line solution.
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Why doesn't Transmission respect my 1 KB/sec upload limit?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10, and have a question about the network activity of Transmission 2.22. Even though I set the global upload limit to 1kbs/s or even 0kb/s, my System Monitor/Conky shows a steady ...
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Can some one suggest a software to monitor and maintain record of total internet bandwidth usage
Can some one suggest a software for a small home network to monitor the amount uploaded / download from the internet but not the local traffic on the LAN. I know there are similar questions like these
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How to reduce the Update Manager's bandwidth usage and download volume?
The Ubuntu "Software Up To Date" is now becoming painful like Windows.
Every time the update check starts, it takes ages to "update cache" and hogs all the internet bandwidth. How to reduce the ...
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web browsing vs. torrent traffic, and bandwidth priority?
recently i did download big torrent files. (120 Gb). and i need to seed them back to at least 1.5 ratio. my upload speed is 130 Kb/s max.
the problem is that i need to seed them as fast as possible. ...
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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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Network bandwidth limitation in KVM
I'm having difficulties finding out how to limit network bandwidth for my VM. The results I found searching the web that libvirt already includes this function, but I can't find it anywhere. Using the ...
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Limit bandwidth usage of "do-release-upgrade -d"
I'd like to upgrade a 15.10 server to 16.04 LTS beta* using do-release-upgrade -d. This is a ~2GB download and I'd like to limit the bandwidth usage of the upgrade. This is possible by setting "...
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All my bandwidth eaten up - report included
I have my network bandwidth eaten up totally. Whenever I connect my network, without any application being opened it is always full.
I have prepared report of iftop, nethogs and network system ...
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Server bandwidth monitoring program having Web interface
I am looking around for a simple program that will log how much bandwidth has been used by my server. This should preferably be presented in a web interface.
Information /summary/functionality I'm ...
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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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Which process is using my network data?
Short question: In Ubuntu, how can I find out how much network data each process has used at a certain time interval (e.g., last hour, last day, ...)?
Long question: I am connecting my Ubuntu machine ...
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Network Interface Traffic Visualizer
I have multiple interfaces active at a time, I want to visualize the bandwidth in/out from the interfaces on my PC. I know iptraf does this without visualization.
So, far the closest tool I have ...
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How to calculate the UDP input Bitrate and Output Bitrate
How to Calculate the UDP Bitrate and information(UDP Input bitrate and UDP Output bitrate)
Like ffprobe
Input #0, mpegts, from 'udp://269.1.1.104:1001':
Duration: N/A, start: 25881.121689, bitrate: ...
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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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vnstat - combine WiFi and Ethernet usage together
My laptop has two network interfaces enp59s0 and wlp60s0. Historically I've always used the Ethernet card (enp59s0) so using vnstat to get network consumption for today, yesterday, current week and ...
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Is there GUI software that can show how much bandwidth a user on my home network is using?
Are there any GUI applications I can use to see how much bandwidth a user on my home network is using? I use Ubuntu 16.04.
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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 to limit network bandwidth apt-mirror
I am setting up a local repository server and downloading the repository takes up to lots of internet bandwidth. How do I limit the apt-mirror to download with 2MB/s?
Internet connection has become ...
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GUI for running network statistics or bandwidth limiter?
Is there a networking statistics app or indicator for Ubuntu that can measure how much I download/upload every day/week/month and so forth?
I'm also looking for something similar that can limit my ...
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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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The kernel is telling me that PCIe bandwidth is limited
From my kernel messages:
126.016 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 8.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link at 0000:16:00.0 (capable of 252.048 Gb/s with 16.0 GT/s PCIe x16 link)
My Supermicro X11-SRM-F has ...
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How to slow down internet connection?
I have a very large download to perform which is low priority.
Can I throttle back the networking speed of my Ubuntu 18.10 so this download does not bog down my connection which is shared with other ...
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Is there any linux in built application or any method to find the network usage(data usage) of the internet connection?
Is there any linux in built application or any method to find the network usage(data usage) of the internet connection? I know there are many softwares that can be installed into os for this purpose. ...
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Where does nload get the bandwidth data from?
tl;dr The bandwidth usage recorded by nload (home page) is higher than what's provided by tcpdump (home page).
There seems to be a difference in bandwidth usage when I run tcpdump -e -w - | pv -a >...
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Display total received data (from network history in System Monitor) in the Unity Panel
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04. Is there a way to display the total received data which is available in the network history of System monitor tool, on the Unity Panel?
I have limited amount of bandwidth ...
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Is it possible to ruduce background network use when on mobile wifi hotspot
Short version: What is the easiest way to temporarily reduce the amount of background network traffic to a minimum?
Long Version: I'm connecting to a mobile wi-fi hotspot hosted by my cell phone, If ...
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Updating repo issue must be changed in Ubuntu [closed]
What do you all think about the 11 to 14 MBs of data during updating the repository index files (with sudo apt-get updates) of the installed Ubuntu or other Linux OS to just get a piece of ...
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How to limit download/upload speed for specific users? [duplicate]
I want to setup an ubuntu server in which some users are limited to a specific download/upload speed.Is it possible?
I know about Wondershaper, Trickle or similar tools but I don't want to limit ...
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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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