Global bandwidth settings

Aspera® FASP® transport has no theoretical throughput limit. In addition to network capacity, transfer rates can be limited by user-configured rate settings and the resources of the local and remote machines. You can configure bandwidth usage limits and the number of concurrent FASP transfers that are allowed by Desktop Client.

About this task

Procedure

  1. Start the application with administrator privileges and click Tools > Global Preferences.
    Launch global preferences.
  2. Click Transfers.
    The preferences window.
  3. To limit total bandwidth usage by FASP uploads and downloads, edit System-Wide Settings.
    System-wide settings set the aggregated bandwidth cap for all FASP transfers on this computer.

    To override the default bandwidth limits, under System-Wide Settings select the boxes next to Limit Download Bandwidth and Limit Upload Bandwidth and enter new values in the fields. The global settings for download and upload bandwidth limits cannot be reset by nonadmin users. However, users can view the global limit from the Preferences > Transfers dialog.

  4. To set default target rates for all users, edit Default Target Rate.
    Nonadmin users can adjust their personal default target rates above or below the global default value.
  5. To limit the number of active transfers, edit Maximum Active Transfers.
    Nonadmin users can adjust their personal maximum active transfers above or below the global default value.
  6. Click OK to activate your changes.