Traffic Cop (wasta-traffic-cop)
Install latest/edge of Traffic Cop
Ubuntu 16.04 or later?
Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.
Install using the command line
sudo snap install wasta-traffic-cop --edgeDon't have snapd? Get set up for snaps.
Details for Traffic Cop
Package name
- wasta-traffic-cop
License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
Last updated
- 27 October 2026 - latest/edge
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Set and watch per-app bandwidth limits.
Traffic Cop limits how fast each app may download and upload, and shows how much each one is using, including UDP (video calls). Useful on slow or metered connections: keep a video call usable while updates download, or stop one app from using the whole connection.
Apps are recognised by their systemd unit, which snap and flatpak apps always have; desktop apps get one when the desktop launches them in their own scope (GNOME does). Limits are applied with nftables and tc (CAKE).
After installing, connect the interfaces the background service needs:
sudo snap connect wasta-traffic-cop:network-control sudo snap connect wasta-traffic-cop:firewall-control sudo snap connect wasta-traffic-cop:system-observe sudo snap restart wasta-traffic-cop.daemon
Then open Traffic Cop from the menu, or in a terminal:
wasta-traffic-cop status what's limited and running wasta-traffic-cop rates -w live rates wasta-traffic-cop pause|resume turn the limits off and on
Administrators (members of sudo, admin or wheel) can change the apps and their limits; everyone can watch.
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