Re: [squid-users] How to control download banwidth

Mr Crack wrote:
> I setup squid at many Cyber cafe;
> The performnace is normal.
> but the following problem occurs.
> If one of the users download large files with download manager e.g.
> IDM, Free Download managers, ..... the whole Internet cafe speed
> becomes very slow.
> I have set download limit policies but it is not suitable all the time.
> There are many situations user need to download more than download limit.
>
> I can solve this problem if i can control download bandwidth so that
> they cannot take the whole Internet bandwidth if they download with
> IDM, FDM, Gozilla ...
>
> Any can help me with example....

delay_pool - limit download speeds. Can be set such that up to a limit
the speed is unlimited, then for larger downloads the speed gets dropped.

Usually used with maxconn ACL to limit people using too many seperate
connections. Gozilla for example opens 3+ HTTP requests for different
parts of the same object...

Amos

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