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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello all, I’ve just become an ambassador for the RIPE Atlas programme.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a question.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wish to deploy a number of probes to remote low-capacity satellite connected islands.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>These islands have strict and VERY expensive monthly usage quotas.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Looking at some probes already installed, I see that the minimum bandwidth (is that the term used?) is approximately 3.3kbit/s<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This equates to around 1GB of data per month which represent a significant percentage of a consumer’s monthly quota.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll have a hard job convincing volunteers to act as hosts if they consume that much.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is there a way I can set ‘bandwidth’ to less than 10kbs or is there a workaround I can use to reduce this under my control?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It has been suggested that I could out a timer on the host but that is nonworkable!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any help would be appreciated as I know that reachability is quite unreliable at times and the data I could provide would be most interesting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chris<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>