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Originally Posted by SCerovec
I'm not sure?
I had quite a hard time until I realized that I can only control outbound.
If I try to control inbound, I only 'punish' my self - no control there.
It it helps at all :-(
Now I'm happy with sfq and hfsc and arno's AIF... for a while.
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This.
You can't listen slowly, you can only talk slowly.
You can't control the inbound rate of traffic easily, in a lot of cases you can't control inbound rates at all. This is the age old forum post about the housemates in a house trying to limit each person so they don't overcrowd each other's net usage. It's simply (virtually) impossible.
When a host sends you traffic you can't slow down the rate that you receive it because the remote host needs confirmation you received it ok, some equipment 'queues' inbound traffic (sending receipts at the time) and only processes it when other queues of different sorts of traffic are completed, but there is still a time limit and you have still received it in a way, you just haven't processed it yet.