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Using multiple USB webcams in Linux

Running more than one USB webcam in Debian/Linux results in the the following error: libv4l2: error turning on stream: No space left on device VIDIOC_STREAMON: No space left on device What ...
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How to monitor bandwidth on a Linux router by LAN IP

There are plenty of ways to monitor traffic on a specific interface or even by port. But if I am on a router and suspect one of the workstations is using more bandwidth then others, how to check?
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Does a minimized Remote Desktop session uses bandwith?

I have a simple question. Does a minimized Remote Desktop session uses bandwidth? I would like to have remote connections permanently up but I was wondering if this would increase the bandwidth ...
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does anyone know about dark fiber? product of google? [closed]

I've read articles about dark fiber on a blog. according to what I've read that dark fiber is a product from Google that provides fast internet service reaches 8TB / h. is it true? and I am still ...
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random internet latency issues

We are having lag issues with our internet and have been for a while now. I have contacted our ISP's customer service SEVERAL times regarding the issue. Every time i talk to them they tell me to ...
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Determine which Wi-Fi standard is being broadcast

I am on a Wi-Fi network that I think is 802.11b, judging by the low bandwidth I have, if compared with a wired connection. But how can I confirm that this wireless network is broadcasting 802.11b ...
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What's causing my intranet bandwidth to be slow/low during file transfer?

I have a network in place, where I have a desktop wireless connecting to a Linksys E4200 series gigabit router, and a Nexstar NAS gigabit enclosure connected to the router via Cat 5e patch cable. To ...
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how to find bandwidth bottleneck between two remote server?

I want to copy a large file from one remote server to another, but it's slowly (about 10 kb/s). I have tried to download some file from http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html in both server and ...
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Monitoring Bandwidth Usage on a Wireless Network

Is there anyway for me to monitor my network bandwidth without installing firmware on my router? It includes wireless connections and I can't install any programs on the other laptops that use the ...
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CrossfireX 6970 2GB Running at only PCIE2.0 8x on PCIE3.0 Motherboard

I know that this question may seem strange, but it's hard to find a clear answer anywhere. I currently have the following configuration Core i5 2500k (Sandy Bridge) 16GB DDR3 RAM 2 x Radeon HD 6970 ...
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proxy cache server limitations?

I have a more than less generalized question(s) regarding proxy caching servers. Just to set up a hypothetical scene, I have been playing with the idea of installing a proxy cache server within my ...
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Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen?

John Carmack tweeted, I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that? And if this weren’t John Carmack, I’d file it under “the interwebs being ...
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Motherboards/components to eliminate USB Bandwidth issue

I'm currently running web streaming from a Dell XPS 15 running Windows 7 with a i5 M480 2.67ghz processor and 6gb of ram. I connect TWO EasyCap DC60+ devices and a TV Tuner to all three of my ...
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Controlling Internet Speed

I have connected 2 computers to the same internet modem. Due to which I am getting very less download speed. Is there a way to control the internet speed so that I get 70 % of the speed and the other ...
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Wifi is slower than Ethernet cable connection?

I configured my new router and noticed that WiFi connection is way slower than Ethernet connection. Ethernet connection giving a download speed of ~60Mbps and upload speed of ~30Mbps while the Wifi ...
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Monitoring Bandwidth usage (which apps are secretly accessing the net from my pc) [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What can I use to measure the bandwidth a specific Windows application uses? I recently got a Dell Inspiron to replace an ageing desktop. I use my new Dell to connect to ...
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Bandwidth simulator for Safari [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How do I simulate a slow internet connection on OS X? Does anybody know of a bandwidth simulator for Safari? One I can test my localhost apps on? I just want to see ...
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Bandwidth throttling for a group of applications on Mac?

I use several two to download files from usenet and peer-to-peer networks, like uTorrent and SABnzbd+. Both applications support bandwidth throttling in the application's settings (e.g. 2MBps down ...
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Logging individual application network usage in Windows 7

There are many answers here detailing programs that will monitor and log internet usage for a pc, but I need that usage to be logged and broken down, detailing which applications consumed that data. ...
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How much bandwith is required to stream 1080p?

I am wondering how much bandwith is required to stream a 1080p movie from for example Youtube. I am aware that there may be things such as compression that come in play here, but can anyone provide a ...
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Increasing network speed on low bandwidth

I'm struggling with the following issue: Given a computer with low-medium CPU/RAM capabilities, and an extremely poor network connection. Poor means here 10-15 kb/s. I would like to do something to ...
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Cellular Bandwidth Measurement IPerf

I am trying to obtain the bandwidth of a cellular link (3G) using IPerf. When I specify a time parameter this duration is never consistent usually being above. While if I specify a given amount of ...
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Game Server with onboard NIC. Do I need to upgrade?

I have a dedicated desktop machine that runs a linux game server that needs to handle at most a couple hundred users. I currently have a 50/50 Mbps fiber line for internet connection and am trying to ...
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is there any software to establish N percent of internet speed to the processes?

I'm interesting to find a software to control my internet speed usage that would limite each process to use percent of internet speed. or even any (speed or volume) limitation that would set to each ...
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Tool to monitor wifi stability?

I'm having wireless problems both at home and at work. I'm looking for a tool that tests TCP/IP reliability: wireless network is always here bandwidth: does the bandwidth drop at some point? ...
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Trying to implement different network latencies and bandwidths using tc in Ubuntu

I've seen a few similar posts around but haven't found anything that's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm hoping to test software under different bandwidths (up and down) and latencies to simulate ...
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Does a bad Internet connection increase bandwidth usage?

My (Rogers) cable connection has been pretty bad recently (channels 3 and 10 are particularly fuzzy—it’s analog, not digital cable). Not surprisingly, this has caused my cable modem to drop out and ...
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Rate limiting bandwidth per IP

First, I am not that good with computer. I even had problem with Windows PC. Right now I own a restaurant which happened to offer free internet. My ISP has my connection setup using a Ubuntu 11.1 box. ...
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Private Gaming VPN

My buddy moved to Korea for the military, and we play Star Wars: The old Republic together. While connecting to the servers he gets an okay ping, but since the game uses a lot of data streaming, when ...
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how to view only text from a website

Is it possible that when a website is opened only text data is displayed i.e no image, advertisement etc. so that it takes lesser time to load the website ?Any browser that supports this?
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Free Bandwidth Rate Limiter

I have 6 windows (XP/7) computers on a network which only has a 2mb line. We occasionly get times when one of the computers take up the entire line and everyone else hangs. I believe a rate limiter to ...
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How to limit bandwidth per host? [closed]

i'd like to limit my company bandwidth per host. In particular if my total bandwidth is 100 (kb, or mbit, or byte ;) ) i would like that a user who's downloading something don't get all bandwidth. How ...
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command line: how to get instantaneous bandwidth on a port

I'm trying to get the instantaneous bandwidth usage of eth0, port 10001. I've looked into using lots of different tools, but most of these seem to have an ncurses type output which isn't suitable for ...
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Firefox keeps secretly downloading with my bandwidth using random ports?

Just recently I've noticed from my Comodo Firewall that I have strange outbound connections when using Firefox. It keeps secretly downloading nothing. Every time I download any type of file I get ...
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QoS or something else?

When running a bit-torrent client I find that it uses all my available ports(right term?), such that I can't surf the internet or get any response from web apps. This is not a bandwidth issue as I ...
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How to use NetLimiter to regulate my upload bandwidth load?

Per a recommendation on why my uploading was killing my downloading I've installed NetLimiter. I keep tweaking the configuration and haven't found something I am completely happy with. I couldn't find ...
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Can I use a pci-e x16 slot for multple cards?

I have a mini itx pc with only one pci-e x16 slot. There is another old style pci slot. I don't care that much about graphics bandwidth and I'd like to add USB 3.0 support. It's a waste to be using ...
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Bandwidth Sharing 2 pcs ( linux and windows )

Greeting All How can we share bandwidth between 2 pcs ( a windows pc and a linux pc ). We have one adsl connection. We would like the users to share bandwidth when both are active and when only one ...
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Multi-band router vs. Changing MAC address [closed]

My question is it better to get a multi-band router or just change the router's settings that I have to only accept the MAC addresses from two pcs and a X-Box, without having a "power struggle" for ...
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I want to monitor and limit OS X's data transfer while I'm tethering via my iPhone

So, I have an iPhone with Sprint service. They offer a mobile hotspot add-on option. Sprint will offer me 5GB of data transfer under this plan, but then they will charge me extra. Specifically, they ...
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Check Bandwidth utilization of specific application or process in windows 7

I want to know is there any command-line tool (windows built-in or 3rd party), that can be used to check bandwidth utilization of a particular process or executable? For example, i want to check ...
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see bandwith usage by wired clients (MACs) in home network

In home network, 4 devices are connected by LAN cables to the router. Router is simple DLink supplied by ISP. I need to know which bandwidth is used at the moment by each of 4 "clients" ("cables"). ...
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How to monitor router traffic?

I have a Cisco DPC3825 DOCSIS 3.0 modem/router combo. I want to monitor the traffic that passes through my router such as bandwidth usage. I have bandwidth meters like DuMeter on my PC to monitor ...
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What does bandwidth of a device mean?

I am presently learning CUDA and I keep coming across phrases like "GPUs have dedicated memory which has 5–10X the bandwidth of CPU memory" See here for reference on the second slide Now what ...
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One PC blocks Internet access on the network

One (and always the same) PC blocks Internet access on the entire network. It usually happens Sunday morning after not using it on Saturday, but it could happen any time. What happens is that this ...
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how can I set only a specific browser like chrome, to use all the 100% bandwidth? windows xp

how can I set only a specific browser like chrome, to use all the 100% bandwidth? windows xp. Is there any method to direct the internet only for a specific browser or application? I also want to ...
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Would being on paltalk 8 hours a day consume allot of bandwidth?

My household bandwidth is over 60 GB per month, and my guess is that it is so high because someone listens to palk talk audio for over 8 hours per day. Could palk talk really use this much bandwidth? ...
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Is a T1 sufficient for 12 Pcs [closed]

The company I work for is in an area where only T1 s are available. We have 12 PCs Networked, I guess is the terminology and the company promised us 1.59 MBP, I have checked download speeds on all 12 ...
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How does bandwidth allocation in broadband internet actually happen?

I have subscribed for a broadband plan for 2Mbps. However there is considerable inconsistencies between the promised speed and the actual download speeds. For instance the maximum download speeds I ...
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An application to monitor/stop network connections?

I'm on a limited connection and the problem is that whenever I connect to the internet with the cable, using a desktop widget I note that it starts to use internet even without opening anything! and ...

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