Bandwidth Application?

FireFox · Post by **FireFox** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:14 am

As I was listening to winamp playing internet radio and browsing this Idea hit me.

I'm looking for something to control the amount of Bandwidth an application in windows uses. The thing is I'm stuck on a 56k modem and high bandwidth connections are limited and out of my price range at the present moment.

Basicly I'd just like to be able to allocate an certain amount of bandwidth to a couple of application if ran together for eg.

of the 5kb/s

3kb/s Winamp (Internet radio) + 2kb/s Browser (Firefox)
2 - 4kb/s depends on d/l Downloader + rest of kb/s Browser and so on...

I hope that made sence.

The figures above are only eg. and guesses so if anybody knows of such an application and were I could get my hands on it or even if it can be done with Windows Xp Pro I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:25 am

i hear ya firefox. it's always seemed silly to me that we have nothing like this integrated into our OSs.

personally i have found it handy to set the limits on the various programs internally, respective to each program. i'm lucky coz a few of the programs i use have this option in them.
my downloader has it, my bittorrent program has it.

but it would be nice to have it all in one spot, virtual turnable knobs on a firewall perhaps.

DarkShadow · Post by **DarkShadow** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:48 am

Maybe something like this?

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/dusuper.html

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:48 pm

Netlimiter yo. www.netlimiter.com.

Matrix · Post by **Matrix** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:59 pm

Krom wrote:Netlimiter yo. www.netlimiter.com.

x2

couldnt live w/o it

BAAL · Post by **BAAL** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:57 am

Another vote for netlimiter here.

FireFox · Post by **FireFox** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:52 pm

Thanks everyone.

Add one more vote for Netlimiter

SkyNet · Post by **SkyNet** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 6:15 pm

If you were using Linux then you could go with QoS/Fair Queing that's built into the kernel. Of course it's free unlike netlimiter, but then you'd also have to run Linux or actually simply have a linux router allowing your desktop machines to utilize Win32.

Genghis · Post by **Genghis** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:31 am

I need a proggie that will moniter my connection and let me know how often and for how long it goes down. Can netlimiter do this? If not, does anyone know of another tool that can?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:27 pm

Ping Plotter, the non freeware version can do that. Just ping your default gateway or ISP's web server once every 10-30 seconds and graph it.

Genghis · Post by **Genghis** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:34 pm

Duh, I didn't think of that. I'll get right on it, thanks.