Limit Download Speed

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#1 Tue, 12/20/2016 - 05:46

mrex778

Limit Download Speed

I have installed webmin and virtualmin on centos and I'm using it as a download server. I want to know that is it possible to limit download speed for users? ( something around 300kbps and without using any php scripts ). and I use wget command for downloading files.

#2 Tue, 12/20/2016 - 06:47

Diabolico

For wget:

   --limit-rate=amount
       Limit the download speed to amount bytes per second.  Amount may
       be expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the k suffix, or 
       megabytes with the m suffix.  For example, --limit-rate=20k will limit 
       the retrieval rate to 20KB/s.  This is useful when, for
       whatever reason, you don't want Wget to consume 
       the entire available bandwidth.

Other solution would be to use Apache and mod_ratelimit.

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#3 Sun, 12/25/2016 - 22:54

Joe

You probably want a rate limiting module for Apache to limit it server-side.

There are several options, but mod_qos is probably the most complete and flexible (though it can be a little intimidating to get started with), and it is available in the EPEL repository, so it's easy to install. The docs for mod_qos have an example of bandwidth limiting here: http://mod-qos.sourceforge.net/index.html#usecases (scroll a little bit down, as there's no link to get directly to bandwidth).

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