Download/Upload monitor

Husky

United States3362 Posts

March 05 2010 08:06 GMT

Anyone know a good program to use for limiting your download/upload speeds?

Say I'm uploading a YouTube video but dont want to completely own my upload speed, so I set FireFox to only be able to upload at 50 kb/s... etc.

I used to use NetBalancer and another program as a backup but they both dont seem to work on Windows 7 64 bit.

Thanks!

myzael

Poland605 Posts

March 05 2010 09:54 GMT

Could this Firefox Addon be helpful? Or do you want something that is able to affect more programs?

Edit: buggy url

Nao

Poland166 Posts

March 05 2010 11:43 GMT

I use a program called NetLimiter 2 pro and it's good soft but it's shareware.

After doing some search i found ony 1 freeware alternative - "Traffic Shaper XP" found here , not shure if it's good thou. And bacause i can't restart my comp now, i can't check it.

If you try it, then give feedbak here please

Lokomis

United States72 Posts

March 05 2010 12:24 GMT

If you're using a router that supports it and are comfortable fiddling with it you could replace the stock firmware with DD-WRT. It has QoS (Quality of Service) settings that allow you to limit bandwidth on a per Application/Port, IP or MAC basis. This would allow you shape traffic on an individual machine or even across your entire network. I don't have the time at the moment to write a guide but there is plenty of information out there regarding DD-WRT and its features. If you're not comfortable tweaking some of the more advanced features in your router's stock firmware then you'll probably want to avoid DD-WRT though.

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