Chapter 9. Optimizing Network Traffic

Untangle's Bandwidth Control application can be used to enhance your bandwidth usage. Using Bandwidth Control, you can prevent certain users from draining the whole bandwidth by setting quotas. You can also limit the bandwidth assigned to certain protocols (such as BitTorrent). Untangle's Web Cache, provides a local cache of the recently visited websites. This can allow users when rerequesting this website to download the data from the local cache instead of redownloading the data, which could enhance their browsing experience.

The same method that was used to explain the applications in the previous chapters will be used here. We will first introduce the application, then cover how it works and any related ...

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