2020-2Q: Bucket Updates - Separate Throttled up and down rates
In the past, when throttling was used a single throttle % was specified. This % then applied to both the upload and download rates to get the throttled upload and throttled download rates.
Fig 1. Different Bank Formats
Having the same % applied to both upload and download rates can cause problems where buckets are highly asymmetric. For example, if a bucket was 10Mb/s download and 512kbit/s upload, and it was desired to throttle download to 1Mb/s (i.e. 10%), this would have resulted in a throttled upload rate of just 51kbit/s which may have made the link unusable.
Now upload and download throttle rates can be specified independently so appropriate rates can be chosen for both upload and download rates:
Fig 2: Updated Bucket Rates Page showing separate upload and download throttle rates
Notes:
- If the "Throttled down rate" is not specified, or set to 0, throttling will not be applied.
- If the "Throttled up rate" is not specified, or set to 0, it will default to the "Throttled down rate".
- The change only affects the display / entry of data - all existing bucket rates and throttling rates remain unchanged in the database and there is no change to the throttling functionality.
- With the change in place, all existing throttled download and upload rates should be reviewed and adjusted as required.
Published Date: 25/May/2020
Change History Log:
25/May/2020 sjs Original Version
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