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Throughput

Throughput is the volume of data a proxied connection can move per second, bounded by the slowest link on the path: for residential exits the household's upload and download speed, for mobile exits the cell, for datacenter and ISP exits the facility uplink. Aggregate throughput grows with concurrency, so a pool can move large volumes even when each exit is modest; per-connection throughput is what matters for large files and media.

1 min read Also called bandwidth, speed Updated

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Rule of thumb#

Exit typePer connectionBest use
DatacenterHundreds of Mbit/sBulk transfer, large files
ISPHundreds of Mbit/sLong sessions with heavy pages
ResidentialA household line: a few to tens of Mbit/sPages, APIs, many parallel connections
MobileCellular: variablePages and apps, not bulk

Throughput and the bill#

On per-GB networks, moving more bytes faster only makes the bill arrive sooner. Throughput is a question for datacenter and ISP products; on residential and mobile the question is cost per byte.

How it works at ProxShift#

ProxShift sets no throughput cap on any network; datacenter and ISP addresses run at wired speed, residential and mobile at the speed of the household or cell behind the exit.

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