---
title: client.socket.pace
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/variables/client-connection/client-socket-pace
---

**Type:** INTEGER  
**Access:** can be read and set, but not unset

**Available in:** recv, deliver, log, error

Ceiling rate in kilobytes per second for bytes sent to the client. 

The minimum value of this variable is 128KiB.

This rate accounts for header sizes and retransmits, so the application level 
rate might be different from the one set here.