Openvpn limit bandwidth

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I would like to ask you a question concerning openvpn and the possibility to increase the bandwidth in case I want to transfer files.

I have an openvpn server via which I connect to my data center. So, in some way, I want to have the ability to increase bandwidth when I'm going to transfer bigger than normal size of files.

From a google search, there are two options in my mind:

1)tc command
2)openvpn –shaper

In the first case, I haven't really understood how this command works.
In the latter, I have understood that I should run in this command on my openvpn server and limit bandwidth per user, per ip, etc.. But, I think that this should also happen on my tunnel interface. Is it true? And if this step should also be done, which is the way to configure the tunnel interface on Windows 7?

Thanks in advance

Best Answer

if you are using windows as client side, i would suggest to netlimiter software as it's easy to use, the tc is hard to configure specially in case of download as you would use polycer shaper.

with netlimeter you can control upload and download speed easily, from the client side.

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