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rogelio · Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:42 pm

I'm often downloading from both newsgroups and IE at the same time, and web-browsing can become greatly compromised.

I was wondering if there's a plugin or windows add-in that allows me to easily set a bandwidth max (like 180 kb/s for example).... and then to allocate a specific bandwidth percent for a single program. This could even be somewhat similar to "thread priority" for CPU usage for windows, but for bandwidth instead.

Sincerely,
Max Bandwidth

b3n113 · Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:51 pm

It's called traffic shaping, and I'm not aware of an app that can run on a windows client to take care of this. Usually this is done on a layer 3 switch, a router, or proxy.

mattsteg · Mon Nov 03, 2003 11:53 pm

I would suggest looking for a newsreader that can limit its bandwidth usage.

b3n113 · Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:22 am

Newsbin Pro will do that.

OutlawRecon · Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:50 pm

I really need to get that too. When I'm doing P2P, I want to share my files(what goes around comes around) but not let people suck up 100k/s of my upload speed. My ISP threatened to shut my account off because of it.

Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:52 pm

Most of the P2P programs I've used in the past include a way to limit the amount of upload bandwidth used by the program.

Canuckle · Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:28 pm

NetLimiter comes highly recommended - you can set per application, but it's for that Windows system, so if you have multiple hosts you need one per host. $30 isn't much for a single license...

I've used the bandwidth allocation available in OpenBSD, and found it to be rather poor - there wasn't a lot of control. Linux recently had a kernel patch developed to provide high level packet shaping like what's found in serious bandwidth allocation applications like PacketShaper, but I've yet to hear any feedback.

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