Robo-FTP User's Guide > Appendix > Limiting Bandwidth Usage

Robo-FTP allows you to limit bandwidth used on uploads and downloads. There are two basic ways to enable this functionality.

To set a maximum value for all uploads and downloads for a given FTP site, specify a maximum bit rate (in Kbps) in the Maximum Transfer Rate field when predefining a site using the Robo-FTP Configurator.

You can also separately control upload and download throughput using the /maxrate option on the SENDFILE and RCVFILE script commands respectively.

Any bandwidth value is an upper limit and the actual throughput will be something less than but close to the value specified (assuming the connection is capable of sustaining an upload at roughly the rate specified). Any rate specified with the /maxrate option overrides (if the rate specified is non-zero) any global transfer rate for the given FTP site that may have been specified when the site was defined using the Configurator.