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How to throttle HTTP requests on a Linux machine?

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Mar 15, 20264145 views
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TL;DR: Here is the summary: I need to reduce max connections on Ubuntu 11.04, preferably system-wide, but at least within Google Chrome. I do not need or want to throttle bandwidth. Verizon seems to care only about the number of connections, so that is all I want to change. Also, I don't want to us…

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I successfully use an SSH tunnel to circumvent arbitrary connection limits when tethering. The idea is as follows: starts the tunnel, then you configure firefox or other software to use socks 5 proxy localhost/1234. Follow the instructions on this p…

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