I ' m only ever maxing out at 25 mbpsBut where would you get that information ? If you ' re looking at SNMP stats and such , that ' s an average . Like others said , nothing is ever partially transmitting it ' s all either going at 100 % or at 0 %. So if you ' ve got a workstation with a gig interface trying to upload a video and he ' s got a wideopen receive window , and he dumps 10 1500 byte packets on the wire , he ' ll do that at 1 Gbps . Assuming no other bottlenecks , you ' ll have 15000 bytes hitting that policer at 1 Gbps . If those packets are enough to trip the policer , then some of them will get dropped . If you have a shaper in front of it , it ' ll do the right thing and buffer them . <| sep |> If you like this , you might like Moon Hooch xCDAKpMk