Well, the problem is that limiting inbound traffic is absolutely unreliable. From the numbers given, I guess you're on DSL, right? (Just like me, BTW.) If you were on cable, well, there's not a lot you can do since the media is unreliable w/ regard to your share of it. But I think you're talking about stable bandwith. If you're not lucky, all those peers out there flood your inbound traffic line. You can't shape this on your side, it's absolutely an issue to be resolved on the DSLAM your DSL modem connects to. OTOH, those routers usually don't do very sophisticated packet inspection... So it's all about cutting expensive connections down very early. This is the even more true for applications that are somewhat hasty in changing their requested and incoming traffic. So first try cutting down the maximum even more. Take a few measures and see what is actually saturated: upstream or downstream. If it's in fact neither, it's a configuration issue.
It's actually my upload rate that's difficult to limit. That's not inbound traffic right? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
