# Limiting Bandwidth for Applications

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/limiting-bandwidth-for-applications/442>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [December 12, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/limiting-bandwidth-for-applications/442 "2011-12-12T16:43:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/limiting-bandwidth-for-applications/442/1 "2011-12-12T16:43:42Z")

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It there a way to limit the bandwidth being used for Wowza applications? For example, for a Video chat application, could a user force Wowza to limit how much bandwidth can be used on the publishing side so the bit rates don’t go too high (like on video with high motion).

If there’s not a module available, could someone build their own custom module for this purpose?

Thanks,

Derrick F.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/limiting-bandwidth-for-applications/442/2 "2011-12-12T21:47:59Z")

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There is nothing built-in and configurable, but you can do things like this:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-monitor-bandwidth-of-published-streams-modulelimitpublishedstreambandwidth](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-monitor-bandwidth-of-published-streams-modulelimitpublishedstreambandwidth)

Richard

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**Author:** ![Derrick\_Freeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Derrick\_Freeman](https://community.wowza.com/u/Derrick_Freeman)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/limiting-bandwidth-for-applications/442/3 "2011-12-12T17:00:26Z")

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Thanks Richard! This just might do the trick.

Derrick F.