Posted Jul 12, 2007 10:19 UTC (Thu) by Stephen_Beynon (✭ supporter ✭, #4090)
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It is possible to shape incoming traffic for tcp streams. Just drop any
packets that would cause the required bandwidth to be exceeded. TCP is
designed to assume packet loss means a saturated link, and backoff. While
it is not possible to get the bandwidth exact it is good enough to be
usefull.
When it comes to bittorrent I tend to find the problem is the upstream
bandwidth use, and that is much more controlable :)