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** [bugs:#1414] [manpage] terribly unclear documentation of --limit-rate**
**Status:** open
**Created:** Fri Aug 22, 2014 08:28 PM UTC by teo8976
**Last Updated:** Fri Aug 22, 2014 08:28 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
>From the documentation it's not clear whether --limit-rate applies to upload (i.e. sending the request) or download (i.e. receiving the response) or both.
Intuitively, I'd be inclined to guess it applies to upload, as i can hardly even imagine how a rate limit could be applied to download (given that it depends on the other side). However, there's this note:
> If you also use the -Y, --speed-limit option, that  option  will take precedence and might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the speed-limit logic working.
and since speed-limit _is_ related to download speed, that is confusing. 
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