# Does capping my upload also limits my donwload (Ingress)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Node Operators\ **Tags:** bandwidth\ **Created:** [November 6, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086 "2025-11-06T07:55:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gingerbread233](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/gingerbread233/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@gingerbread233](https://forum.storj.io/u/gingerbread233)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/1 "2025-11-06T07:55:40Z")
Hello, at my parents house I capped only the upload bandwidth via wondershaper on my debian node, because it caused lagging in the network. I know there are better ways like SQM, but my router doesn’t support it, so this was a quick and dirty fix. This is running like this since months. But now as I looked at my dashboard and compared it to mine at home, I noticed, that the ingress at my parents houses node only gets around 12GB a day, while mine is getting 50GB. It can’t be the location. Because in the earlier days, both were the same, bandwidth is also enough. Now I’m wondering, is this caused by limiting the upload (egress) for my node? Dies Ingress also needs a little upload for verification etc.? TiA ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/2 "2025-11-06T09:48:37Z")
Likely your node has a lower reputation due to this, so it could be selected less often, especially, if this is not a new node. If this is a new node, then it could be just slow. ---
**Author:** ![gingerbread233](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/gingerbread233/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@gingerbread233](https://forum.storj.io/u/gingerbread233)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/3 "2025-11-06T09:50:45Z")
I had pretty good ingress all the years, until the high egress hit and I had to cap it, so this might be the reason. So it would be better to use a router with SQM to get full potential? Is there also a way to see the reputation, to compare it with the node at my home? ---
**Author:** ![CubeFan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/cubefan/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@CubeFan](https://forum.storj.io/u/CubeFan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/4 "2025-11-06T10:15:47Z")
A friend of mine also has the problem that the node uses too much upload bandwidth, which means he can hardly use the internet anymore. Unfortunately, it’s quite normal for us to have low upload bandwidth. Is there any way to limit the upload bandwidth so that you can still get good download speeds? Would it be possible to send a parameter to the satellites specifying how much bandwidth is available? ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/5 "2025-11-06T10:16:23Z")
Do you understand that usage depends on customers? And that the number of nodes always grow? What was before doesn’t matter now and no guarantee than it would be like this later. > [@CubeFan](#): > > Is there any way to limit the upload bandwidth so that you can still get good download speeds? No, seems it’s a price. > [@CubeFan](#): > > Would it be possible to send a parameter to the satellites specifying how much bandwidth is available? No, it has been removed years ago. And we do not plan to return it back - we want to have a maximum bandwidth from possible. ---
**Author:** ![gingerbread233](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/gingerbread233/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@gingerbread233](https://forum.storj.io/u/gingerbread233)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/6 "2025-11-06T10:17:43Z")
What he experience is called buffer bload either he uses SQM or he caps the upload of his node. On Linux you can use Wondershaper, that’s what I did, just cap it barely under upload speed so the TCP handshakes can be exchanged without any delay. But keep in mind, as @Alexey told, it will lower your reputation, and thus you wont get that much ingress anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Vadim](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/vadim/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Vadim](https://forum.storj.io/u/Vadim)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/7 "2025-11-06T10:37:04Z")
Capping upload is like someone go to you with money and want to give it to you for easy and legal job, but you tell no, no I dont want money. ---
**Author:** ![CubeFan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/cubefan/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@CubeFan](https://forum.storj.io/u/CubeFan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/8 "2025-11-06T10:47:31Z")
> [@Alexey](#): > > we want to have a maximum bandwidth from possible. Understandable, but as an SNO, it’s not really great when the internet is no longer usable. > [@gingerbread233](#): > > On Linux you can use Wondershaper, that’s what I did, just cap it barely under upload speed so the TCP handshakes can be exchanged without any delay Thanks, I’ll pass the information on to him. > [@Vadim](#): > > Capping upload is like someone go to you with money and want to give it to you for easy and legal job, but you tell no, no I dont want money. It’s not that he doesn’t want the upload to be high. But it’s so high that he can hardly use the internet anymore, sometimes he has a ping of 200 ms. That makes surfing unpleasant and you can’t play online games anymore. So the question is how to give Storj as much upload as possible while still being able to use the internet normally. The best way to put it would be: Hey Storj, take all the bandwidth you want, but if I want to do something else, give it back to me. ---
**Author:** ![Roberto](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/roberto/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Roberto](https://forum.storj.io/u/Roberto)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/9 "2025-11-06T10:53:59Z")
If your router allows it, you can create a guest network and adjust its bandwidth. ---
**Author:** ![Vadim](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/vadim/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@Vadim](https://forum.storj.io/u/Vadim)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/10 "2025-11-06T11:01:26Z")
You can use QoS that will prioritize your device over node, and give full bandwidth to node if you not use it. ---
**Author:** ![CubeFan](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/cubefan/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@CubeFan](https://forum.storj.io/u/CubeFan)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/11 "2025-11-06T11:16:08Z")
I tried that with qos in the udm on my old internet connection, so the big test was, unfortunately, it didn’t work. I always had a high ping. Now, luckily, I have enough upload and download speed. Unfortunately, my friend doesn’t. He recently built himself a pfsense, but so far he hasn’t been able to get it to work properly so that Storj is only limited when he needs bandwidth and the internet works without restrictions for other purposes. ---
**Author:** ![gingerbread233](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/gingerbread233/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@gingerbread233](https://forum.storj.io/u/gingerbread233)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/12 "2025-11-06T11:20:45Z")
Best way would be SQM, I’m planning on using an Openwrt Router in-between my Hardware and original router to use it. @arrogantrabbit did a post about SQM and its benefits (it almost does everything by itself): > [@Successrate vs SQM](https://forum.storj.io/t/successrate-vs-sqm/30885): > > To SQM or not to SQM? I have cable internet with 35Mbps upstream bandwidth, which with the recent spike in egress is being saturated at 50Mbps, ramping up latency to 60ms. Success rates looks quite sad: play_button Just look at the large files success rate -- under 25%! Enabling SQM with 40Mbps limiter drops latency to 15ms while still saturated, albeit at lower throughput: play_button And the success rate on large files is magnificent now as well! (note scale is now different Not only success… Capping is more likely a quick and dirty way. I know, that StorJ wants to offer full speed to the customer, but in the end its all private people offering their bandwidth, and if it surpasses the available bandwidth, now wonder some would rather limit Storj, than their own speed. ---
**Author:** ![gingerbread233](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/gingerbread233/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@gingerbread233](https://forum.storj.io/u/gingerbread233)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/13 "2025-11-06T11:36:15Z")
In this case it’s more likely, here is money, but you can’t use your stuff anymore. In this case you can say: Refusing the tiny amount because of the cap is like rejecting a tiny paycheck because you’ll lose the ability to work at all. ---
**Author:** ![Toyoo](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/toyoo/32/1126_2.png) [@Toyoo](https://forum.storj.io/u/Toyoo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/14 "2025-11-06T13:09:38Z")
It might truly be a latency problem. Per Storj’s declarations, for upload nodes are selected in a competition of who can process an upload faster, and in this race, even milliseconds matter. If the ISP has even slightly worse routers, or the home router is old (if it doesn’t support SQM, this is actually plausible), then that location will lose more races, and hence be less selected for new uploads. ---
**Author:** ![gingerbread233](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/gingerbread233/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@gingerbread233](https://forum.storj.io/u/gingerbread233)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/15 "2025-11-06T13:31:22Z")
The Router I use (FritzBox 7590) is now an 8 Year old model (I bought it around 3 years ago), so I think it might be considered old. SQM is the only thing I miss on it, everything is running well. So maybe it looks like I would need a completely new router/modem with SQM, or at least an secondary one with openWRT. ---
**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/16 "2025-11-06T14:37:19Z")
Then you would need also to switch the internet facing router to a bridge mode to do not have a double NAT. ---
**Author:** ![alpharabbit](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alpharabbit/32/1129_2.png) [@alpharabbit](https://forum.storj.io/u/alpharabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/17 "2025-11-06T15:00:02Z")
> [@gingerbread233](#): > > FritzBox 7590 You can create priority rules for each IP address with this router. Have you tried this? ---
**Author:** ![gingerbread233](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/gingerbread233/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@gingerbread233](https://forum.storj.io/u/gingerbread233)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/18 "2025-11-07T13:43:43Z")
Yes, but it sometimes worked, and sometimes not. So I capped it. ---
**Author:** ![gingerbread233](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/letter_avatar/gingerbread233/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@gingerbread233](https://forum.storj.io/u/gingerbread233)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/19 "2025-11-07T13:44:38Z")
As I read I can put an openwrt router in AP mode and running it like a switch, in this case there shouldn’t be any double Nat, and SQM should also be possible. ---
**Author:** ![alpharabbit](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alpharabbit/32/1129_2.png) [@alpharabbit](https://forum.storj.io/u/alpharabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086/20 "2025-11-07T14:10:20Z")
Double NAT is not a real problem in my opinion. If you can’t avoid it easily don’t waste time or money on that. [Next page](https://forum.storj.io/t/does-capping-my-upload-also-limits-my-donwload-ingress/31086.md?page=2)