Impact on Your Connection
Short answer
For most users, no noticeable impact. Orbitly is designed to use only idle bandwidth — the portion of your internet connection that you're not actively using.
How Orbitly prioritizes your traffic
- Your browsing, streaming, and downloads always take priority
- Orbitly only uses bandwidth that would otherwise go unused
- If your connection becomes busy, Orbitly automatically reduces its usage
When you might notice a difference
- On very slow connections (under 1 Mbps)
- On metered mobile data connections
- When multiple heavy downloads are running simultaneously
What you can do
- Use the bandwidth limit setting to cap how much Orbitly can use
- Set Orbitly to Wi-Fi only mode to avoid using mobile data
- Pause sharing any time you need full bandwidth for a specific task