My impression of the bandwidth shaping module was that each connection
would be limited to about 256k. This would impact existing "customers"
... the stats suggest there are at least a few people with "fast"
connections who mirror off this server.
you are mostly right:
from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/shaper.txt:
o Minimum shaping speed is currently about 9600 baud (it can only
shape down to 1 byte per clock tick)
o Maximum is about 256K, it will go above this but get a bit blocky.
i don't have a faster-than-256K connection, but maybe someone who does can
try and let us know what it means by being "blocky"?