Provide Upload Speed Control #756

issue itstooez opened this issue on January 13, 2012

itstooez commented at 11:56 PM on January 13, 2012: none

I tend to leave the Bitcoin client running 24/7 and every so often a new user comes to the network and sucks up all my upload bandwidth causing my entire network to halt, including my miners. Is there anyway to limit the upload speed in the Bitcoin client ? Possibly give a text box to enter a maximum upload kB/s ?

Thanks
grue0 commented at 8:00 PM on January 15, 2012: none

Are you sure it's not just having a ton of connections? I set maxconnections=50, and i never experienced any slowdowns. (1 Mb(bits)/s upload, by the way.

edit: #273
itstooez commented at 9:34 PM on January 15, 2012: none

It could be that also, not sure...I'm assuming that maxconnections=50 goes into bitcoin.conf ?
grue0 commented at 11:14 PM on January 15, 2012: none

@itstooez: yes
laanwj commented at 11:03 AM on January 26, 2012: member

Yes this would be a nice feature... would require quite invasive changes to the net layer though, but eventually we want up/download speed tracking anyway.
laanwj commented at 8:19 AM on February 14, 2012: member

BTW this is a duplicate of #273?
gavinandresen commented at 9:09 PM on February 23, 2012: contributor

Closing as duplicate of #273
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