Bandwidth limit
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Bandwidth limit

The term “bandwidth” refers to the amount of data that may be transmitted over a connection during a period of time. Techies may be overheard referring to how “fat” their “pipe” is. The analogy is apt.

kpf allows you to set a limit on how much bandwidth will be used by a particular share. This is useful when you want to avoid your network connection being saturated by people downloading from your shares. If you are on a modem, for example, you only have a few kilobytes per second to yourself. Limiting the bandwidth used by your kpf shares will allow you to keep a portion of the bandwidth for your own use.

As just mentioned, kpf measures bandwidth in kilobytes per second, or kB/s for short. A typical modem transfers about 5kB/s on average, so limiting the total use of all kpf shares to a value less than this may be wise, depending on how you are using kpf.

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