diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 4f28feba..084ca02d 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ type DiscoveryOptions struct {
 type AdvancedOptions struct {
 	RequestsInFlight int           `long:"reqs-in-flight" description:"Parallell in flight requests per file" default:"4" value-name:"REQS"`
 	FilesInFlight    int           `long:"files-in-flight" description:"Parallell in flight file pulls" default:"8" value-name:"FILES"`
+	LimitRate        int           `long:"send-rate" description:"Rate limit for outgoing data" default:"0" value-name:"KBPS"`
 	ScanInterval     time.Duration `long:"scan-intv" description:"Repository scan interval" default:"60s" value-name:"INTV"`
 	ConnInterval     time.Duration `long:"conn-intv" description:"Node reconnect interval" default:"60s" value-name:"INTV"`
 }
@@ -158,6 +159,9 @@ func main() {
 	for _, t := range opts.Debug.TraceModel {
 		m.Trace(t)
 	}
+	if opts.Advanced.LimitRate > 0 {
+		m.LimitRate(opts.Advanced.LimitRate)
+	}
 
 	// GUI
 	if !opts.NoGUI && opts.GUIAddr != "" {
diff --git a/model/model.go b/model/model.go
index 24fca3d4..050bf19b 100644
--- a/model/model.go
+++ b/model/model.go
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ type Model struct {
 
 	fileLastChanged   map[string]time.Time
 	fileWasSuppressed map[string]int
+
+	limitRequestRate chan struct{}
 }
 
 type Connection interface {
@@ -97,6 +99,21 @@ func NewModel(dir string) *Model {
 	return m
 }
 
+func (m *Model) LimitRate(kbps int) {
+	m.limitRequestRate = make(chan struct{}, kbps)
+	n := kbps/10 + 1
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+			for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+				select {
+				case m.limitRequestRate <- struct{}{}:
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
 // Trace enables trace logging of the given facility. This is a debugging function; grep for m.trace.
 func (m *Model) Trace(t string) {
 	m.Lock()
@@ -334,6 +351,12 @@ func (m *Model) Request(nodeID, name string, offset uint64, size uint32, hash []
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	if m.limitRequestRate != nil {
+		for s := 0; s < len(buf); s += 1024 {
+			<-m.limitRequestRate
+		}
+	}
+
 	return buf, nil
 }