your actual bandwidth. The other option is Intelligent Balancer (Auto), which will automatically compute the maximum bandwidth of WAN1 and WAN2 by using Weighted Round Robin to balance the loading. If the upstream / downstream bandwidth demands are in excess...

problems on a less-than-optimum broadband connection. The optimizing link performs a bandwidth test from your computer, which is assumed to be on the same connection as your phone, and reports the upstream and downstream bandwidth that it measures (Figure 5)....

would have it, Apposite Technologies was kind enough to loan a Linktropy 4500 WAN Emulator (Figure 1) to help me answer this question. The 4500 is a hardware-based emulator that allows adjustment of upstream and downstream bandwidth, delay and loss. It has...

more about Snort here.) There are also bandwidth management ("Traffic shaping") features courtesy of the built-in WonderShaper package. Traffic shaping makes the most out of the upstream and downstream bandwidth doled out by your ISP by allowing you to assign...

of data from lower-valued ports, into one of four egress (outgoing) queues. This means that higher-priority data gets a larger chunk of your upstream bandwidth, which is typically more limited than the downstream. Note that the priority-based QoS...

But while the automatic upstream QoS did help in my VoIP / FTP test, I think some downstream QoS (even if it's just bandwidth limiting) is needed as well to really provide glitch-free performance for real-time applications. On the other hand, you don't really...

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used for Internet connectivity, bandwidth further increases to about 81.6 kbps. And if you are on an ATM-based DSL loop (the most common case), bandwidth used jumps to 106 kbps. Note that this bandwidth use is for each direction of a call, both talking and...

and voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls? The answer appears to be pretty clearly yes. Although Boeing won't talk about exactly how it provisions bandwidth on each plane for each airline, Patrick Schmid, a senior editor for our sister publication TomsHardware, said that...

bandwidth. The typical home Internet connection may let you download files and web surf with a reasonably-sized 1Mbps-or-greater bandwidth. But your upstream (from your computer to the Internet) connection typically is throttled down to as little as 128Mbps...