Bandwidth Throttling

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Intro

Contents 1 Reasons for Throttling 2 Throttling Methods 2.1 Bandwidth Cap 2.2 Traffic Shaping 3 Legal Issues 4 References 5 See Also 6 External Links 7 Signature

Reasons for Throttling

User experience

Throttling Methods

Bandwidth Cap

Bandwidth caps are a simple method of bandwidth control used by ISPs, which limits the amount of bandwidth (upload and/or download) a user may use within a certain time period. This method has been commonplace for years, and although not all people agree with a bandwidth cap there has been few debates about the practise as it is applied neutrally to all, based on the ISP one registers with. ISPs typically offer a pay per gigabyte option for use beyond the maximum bandwidth limit.

Traffic Shaping

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Legal Issues

Chosing what data get throttled / users

References

1. Azureus Wiki A popular BitTorrent client Wiki page

See Also

External Links

Signature

--Mcconkbp 01:02, 9 April 2008 (EDT)