Bandwidth Cap on WAN traffic

[Kenneth Porter]

On Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:50 AM -0400 Ragone_Andrew <kc2lto at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I have been having an issue with upload from Apache on FC5 capping
> uploads between 15 and 20 KBps. On my local LAN, there is no limit. I do
> not have iptables configured and mod_bandwidth does not seem to be
> included in the httpd.conf. I am not sure what else may be limiting this
> outgoing traffic and as of now I believe it is limited only to HTTP
> traffic as SFTP transfers are at my full 2Mbit upload (~230 KBps)... Any
> suggestions on what the problem may be would be appreciated!

How are you measuring the cap?

You may be running into ISP shaping. They've started doing that to limit 
P2P traffic, particularly BitTorrent, and it's possible they threw in a 
rule to limit HTTP traffic as well.