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Upload and download speed of a droplet

Posted on April 10, 2015

Hello, What is the public upload and download speeds of a droplet?



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I had this same issue (FreeBSD 11.1)

Stopping ipfw (/etc/rc.d/ipfw stop) worked went from ~1 MBps up to 10MBps (80 Mbps) not bad.

How can you limit the throughput?

All droplets are connected via 1Gbps network connections. We ask that in practice if your app or service will utilize a lot of bandwidth that you limit the throughput you use to 300Mbps.

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