Especially on a wireless network, a host can consume minimal amount of bandwidth, but the packets per second are huge, around 150-250/sec. If there was a way to incorporate perhaps “dstlimit” to limit the amount of pps to a dest or src, this could greatly reduce congestion on the effected network.
I tried “-m limit –limit 2/s –limit-burst 1”, with a particular ip as the dest, and any for a src, to limit the pps for the download, though the log would keep polling bytes, but no change in actual pps usage.