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How can I monitor bandwidth use between my PC and my phone?

I've connected a smartphone to my PC using a USB cable, and set my phone to "MTP mode" for file transfer. My PC runs Windows 10 (alas...) and my phone runs MIUI based on Android 6.0.1. So now, I'm ...
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Can I use a switch to send high-bandwidth signals from multiple 100Mbps nodes to one central 1000Mbps node?

I want to stream video (compressed, ~20Mbps) from at least six raspberry pi zeros, each of which has a 10/100 USB ethernet adaptor, to a central PC with a 10/100/1000 port. All of the nodes will be ...
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Childrens' apps hog the bandwidth on home LAN; how to add limits for kids

At home, we have a small network. We connect laptops using WiFi, provided by a TP-Link router (Model No. TL-WR1043ND). We run Windows and Linux operating systems on those laptops. The problem is our ...
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Can Network throttling from browser restrict upload bandwidth?

In Chrome Developer Tools, there is an option for throttling under the Network tab. I know it is used to test website performance and that it restricts network bandwidth for downloading the site. My ...
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How does the "Gigabit" bandwidth limit apply in an ethernet network?

Edit: it seems I either misunderstood or was misled by this article, which seems to imply that a 10 Gbps switch is required to make good use of a dozen nodes with gigabit ports. With the clarification ...
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Is it possible to saturate the memory bus using high frequency DDR4 memory, even if a motherboard claims support for it?

So a friend of mine asked for some DDR4 memory recommendations since he was still using DDR3 and wanted to buy a new motherboard, preferably B450 chipset so he could buy a Ryzen. I told him to buy a ...
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How to optimally utilise 2.4GHz & 5GHz bands?

I have a dual band router which transmits two WiFi signals: one at frequency 2.4GHz and the other at frequency 5GHz. I’ve read that, in general, the 5GHz band is quicker when at close range to the ...
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Combining ADSL's valid IP and LTE's high upload bandwidth

I have an ADSL connection with 10/1 Mbps download/upload speed and a valid IPv4 address (i.e., addressable from the internet). Also, there is a Debian server on my network that is running a GitLab CE ...
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Why do I have higher upload bandwidth on WiFi?

I live in a pretty crowded building, so the "airspace" is pretty crowded as well. I get internet from FTTP through a 1Gbps link, which can be considered as stable and reliable for my question. Please ...
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Windows 10 Resource monitor, Network sent/received bandwidth not match the graph

Resource monitoring screenshot: In Windows 10 Resource monitoring, network section, I always find that the detailed network traffic (no 1 in the Figure) doesn't match the graphical view (no 3 in the ...
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Restrict bandwidth for a MAC ID for certain domains

I need to restrict bandwidth (make the site really slow) for 2-3 HTTPS domains (instagram.com and facebook.com) for a relative of mine. So need to target domain and MAC ID of the device. We have a ...
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Android LG K-210 bandwith info for Taiwan [closed]

I have a Canadian LG K210 (LG Power) phone that was unlocked by the carrier Telus which I was able to use in Malaysia (for data and calling) and Thailand (calls only). Here in Taiwan, neither seems ...
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What is the difference between bandwidth and bit rate?

I have seen two definitions for bandwidth: "For a transmission medium, the range of signal frequencies it may transmit" and "The maximum amount of data that can be transmitted in a ...
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How does an application in linux knows the available bandwidth for data transfer(any daemon helps it?)

I am trying to understanding a backup application working and during the staging of the data and uploading to cloud, it sends data as per the available bandwidth. How does it know the available ...
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How to limit the bandwidth/network rate for sshd per user?

I have a computer set up as a server with Ubuntu 18.0.4 sharing with my friends, and using sftp to upload/download files. Recently one of my friends has been doing a large amount of transfer and ...
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Where does internet latency comes from?

Sorry if this was asked before. Couldn't find anything about it on SE. So the distance from San Francisco to Australia is about 8,000 km. This source indicates that the latency among the two ...
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How do I calculate the runtime bandwidth of the PCIe socket using Process Control Monitor?

I'm working in deep learning and I'm trying to identify a bottleneck in our GPU pipeline. We're running Ubuntu on an Intel Xeon motherboard with 4 NVIDIA Titan RTXs. GPU utilization as measured by ...
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Windows update - network speed throttle

What 'speed percentage' is referred in Windows update delivery optimization, 'interface' speed or broadband connection speed? I ask this because I'm on a good LAN, but network connection is slow ~...
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YouTube is consuming much bandwidth than other operations on my home network

I've a problem that when I'm surfing Facebook, Twitter, stackOverflow or any other site than YouTube, Pages usually takes lot of time to download. While, YouTube don't have any problems. I've a 2 Mbps ...
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What is the most bandwidth efficient way to remotely access a Windows pc?

I want to access my work computer from home(or vice versa). I live in a bandwidth constrained 3rd world country so RDP is too slow to be useful in most cases. Can anyone point me in the direction of ...
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will the hdd be the bottleneck for a 10gbps server?

I have a server with 1 gbps connection (which is ~125 MB/s). The server has normal mechanical Hard disk drives. Afaik their speed limit is also around 120 MB/s. For instance, if I download a file from ...
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How to get network bandwidth consumption of each process on Mac

How can I know each process cost my bandwidth in kb/s? Activity Monitor of Mac OSX only shows received bytes and send bytes of each process. Command "nettop" and "nethogs" in Terminal can only show ...
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Can you get an external monitor running on 4k resolution at 60hz using a USB 3.0 to Displayport adapter?

I am trying to get my new 4k monitor running at 60hz refresh rate. At the moment I have a laptop with a micro HDMI port that is most likely HDMI 1.4, since the xrandr outputs: HDMI-1 connected ...
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Effective bandwidth of mismatched PCIe card and slot

What happened if : x16 PCIe 2.0 card into x16 PCIe 3.0 slot (but electrically x8 link due to sharing) x16 PCIe 3.0 card into x16 PCIe 2.0 slot (but electrically x8 link due to sharing) x8 PCIe 3.0 ...
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How to throttle bandwidth effectively

I have a requirement to test various resilient file transfer methods that need to work across an extremely slow and intermittently unreliable network. I have a server and a client available to test ...
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Does distance of one user from WiFi AP have negative impact on other connected users?

One of my friends (that knows very well Wireless world) told me following: Consider we have high speed AP. If one user stays out of the range of AP WiFi (lets say 51 meter away) - he will have low ...
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Strange Wi-Fi "stuttering" (bandwidth drop)

I have been having Wi-Fi "stuttering" on my PC for months: the bandwidth drops every few seconds from 144Mbps to 48Mpbs, and the download speed to zero. Downloads are not interrupted and there are lag ...
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AC WiFi: performances are good from Internet speed but poor within the LAN itself

Recently I put a Netgear A6210 USB WiFi adapter on my laptop to connect with my ISP's 802.11ac 5GHz router. The router is alleged to have a speed of 1,734 Mbps, but the Netgear shows its maximum link ...
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Setting up home wifi network with bandwidth limits

I have a 250Mbps home network and I want to set up a router with per-device or per-subnet bandwidth limits so certain users don't consume all bandwidth. Is this possible? Although I'd prefer an all-...
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How to perform Multipath TCP for bandwidth on Windows® 10? [duplicate]

I’m in a situation where I have an ADSL connection over Ethernet and I can use an open Wi‑Fi access point of my neighbour, who has fiber. I can connect to both networks at the same time, but because ...
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Usable network speed increases when screen is locked, why?

While diagnosing my slow network, I've noticed that my connection speeds up whenever I lock my screen. The peaks in the linked image correspond exactly to when my screen is locked (using Win+L), and ...
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Modem changed and now suddenly one computer on network is capped at 5mbps down

We recently upgraded our AT&T fiber internet to 300up/300down, which required a new modem. Before the swap, my particular computer was getting about 80mbps down, 10mbps up. After the swap, my down ...
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Internet provider secretly limit the bandwidth

I think my internet provider secretly limit my download speed. It has a webpage to test the upload and download speed, I tested the speed while downloading files. I noticed that whenever I start ...
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Dual band routers

I’ll keep it short and simple. I have a dual band router. I want to know if having both the bands on reduces the network speed? As in if I switch the 5GHz network off... will I get a better speed on ...
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Is there a way to limit the bandwidth that Google Drive File Stream uses in Windows?

Is there a way to limit the bandwidth that Google Drive File Stream uses? I'm using Windows 10 and when I resume syncing, the Internet becomes unusable. I have to stop syncing to browse simple web ...
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CAT 6 only getting 100 megabits

Using a 200 foot CAT 6 cable I'm only getting 100 megabits on a 400 megabit connection. We tested a laptop and got about 370 megabits while directly connected to the modem (not a combination with ...
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Slow bandwidth with iperf3 when using Windows but Linux runs at full speed

I have a DigitalOcean Droplet that shares a gigabit connection and my college dorm fortunately also has gigabit connection. I noticed data transfers between the two were quite slow so I ran iperf3 ...
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Is there a way to limit bandwidth for azureus?

I am downloading stuffs (legally) with azureus. And I want to play overwatch. Can I do both? Overwatch ping becomes insane. Can I set azureus bandwith to low?
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MikroTik hEX router – how to limit bandwidth on Ethernet

I have a MikroTik hEX router running RouterOS 6.4. eth1 is my WAN port. eth2 is connected to a TP-Link Wi-Fi router. All the devices on this Wi-Fi network have addresses in the range 192.168.42.100 ...
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When doubling Internet connection speed, will my effective in-house bandwidth also double?

So I'm thinking of increasing my Internet connection by 40 Mbit/s, also doubling it. This is because in the furthest corners in my apartment I have 1 Mbit/s. So when I increase will I get 41&...
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why can't we just upload a file and it reaches its destination without the other device downloading it? [closed]

when we have to view or get some content off the internet. We have to download it on the other hand the server uploads it So here's my question => Why can't the server simply upload the file and it ...
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How to decrease RDP bandwidth usage?

I am using Remote Desktop to connect to a Windows 7 x64 PC. The OS allows concurrent remote desktop connections. I want to be able to play videogames remotely, but I noticed that when using remote ...
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Changing the TCP initial congestion window value in Windows 10

I would like to do some testing with the TCP Initial congestion window on Windows 10 Pro, but it seems the settings are disabled in the Pro version: Set-NetTCPSetting -SettingName InternetCustom -...
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Router with bandwidth control to switch

If i limit the bandwidth in a router like only 2Mbps and i connect a switch, does all devices connected to a switch will have 2Mbps bandwidth, or all devices will share in 2Mbps bandwidth?
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Should cpu memory bandwidth match with video memory bandwidth?

I found somewhere that the video memory bandwidth is a good indicator of performance on video cards. I checked a few examples and it correlates pretty well with benchmark points. I read in another ...
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Storage workload differentiate

I am searching some info about storage implementations. Came across random workloads which would be the bets measure by IOPS and sequential where measurement unit would be bandwidth. I would like to ...
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Is there a way to limit the bandwidth that Google Drive File Stream uses?

Is there a way to limit the bandwidth that Google Drive File Stream uses? I'm using a Mac and when I resume syncing, the Internet becomes unusable. I have to stop syncing to browse simple web pages!
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Android Studio significantly reduces internet bandwidth

While downloading GTA5, I decided to open Android studio, to my surprise, the download speed dropped from 1.8Mbps to 0.3Mbps almost instantly. On closing android studio, the speed went back up to 1....
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How can I prevent uploading large files crippling my home internet connection?

I've a VDSL/fibre connection to my home with about 5/30 Mbps up/down. I've discovered that uploading large files, my house's entire internet access is virtually non-responsive even to the extent my ...
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Suffering from specific devices killing my home network, mainly mobile devices

I'm having some issues with extremely bogged down internet. I've tried several routers with QoS, but they didn't do much. The internet is plenty fast enough for everything, but the lack of sharing ...
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