If you often run multiple networking applications on your Linux desktop, or share bandwidth among multiple computers at home, you will want to have a better control over bandwidth usage.
Otherwise, when you are downloading a big file with a downloader, your interactive SSH session may become sluggish to the point where it’s unusable. Or when you sync a big folder over Dropbox, your roommate may complain that video streaming movie at her computer gets choppy.
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