A howtoforge.com article on installing mod_cband bandwidth limiting module for Apache 2. Great! I've been waiting for some bandwidth limiting module to step up (and for someone to write a nice clear installation article.) This is one of the things I feel like I lost by going with Apache 2 over 1.3 - the older version had much better bandwidth limiting modules. But hopefully that is no longer the case. This gets moved way up towards the top of the list.
- jim 6-01-2006 8:51 pm

Wow, that was easy. Very cool. You can specify, among other things, a max download rate per client. The only weird thing is that the instructions in this tutorial have this rate specified in the config file as kb/s which to me would mean kiloBITS per second - but in reality, even when you put, say, '100 kb/s' it actually limits the rate to 100 kiloBYTES per second. I would have thought that would be 100 KB/s. But whatever. Maybe this is a general misunderstanding on my part.
- jim 6-04-2006 4:50 pm


generally, B=byte, b=bit, as in Mbps or MB/s
- mark 6-04-2006 8:14 pm


That's what I thought.

Do you ever run into people who use MiB and GiB?
- jim 6-04-2006 8:31 pm


No. But I have seen kbyte = 1000 bytes and Kbyte = 1024 bytes.
- mark 6-04-2006 8:51 pm


Yeah, I see that confusion all the time. I guess that's what KiB is supposed to clarify. But if you don't hear anyone use it I'm guessing no one uses it.
- jim 6-04-2006 9:08 pm





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