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rejetto,
Is there any chance that you would be able to include and option that would let us limit (select) how many different IP's we allow access to the server at the same time?
In most cases, without a commercial account, upload bandwidth on the net is much slower than download bandwidth. If there are to many different IP's downloading from the server at the same time, these users experience slow KB/s as available server bandwidth is shared. If we could limit the number of IP's accessing the server at the same time, the users will experience better performance and better download speeds and we will receive less complaints about having a slow server.
In my case, I have an upload limit of 60 KB/s. I have been averaging at least 8-10 different IP's on at the same time downloading. That results in slow download KB/s for them and really ties up the server until these downloads complete and they finally leave. I have even limited the max downloads per IP to 1 at a time, but that makes no difference.
Hope you can include an IP limit feature. I think this was brought up before some place but I don't recall seeing a reply.
maverick