Setting Bandwidth Throttling

To understand how bandwidth throttling works, imagine a set of two power lines running to and from your house, but instead of power, information such as word processing files or images is flowing through the lines. One line is only for uploading to the Internet (MozyHome backups, email, etc.), while the other is only for downloading from the internet (incoming email, photos, programs, etc.). Your Internet service provider supplies your information lines and determines the size of those lines. Only so much data can flow through them at a time.

During some parts of the day (or always, depending on your service), you might need MozyHome to use less of your upload bandwidth so other higher priority services such as email can use it. This is called "throttling." You can customize the backup throttle so that you don't tie up your information lines when you need them the most. While throttling determines the amount of bandwidth you want to dedicate to MozyHome, Backup Speed determines how much of your computer's CPU is dedicated to the encryption and backup of your files.