Bandwidth Allotment

[Wings_of_Azrael]

Are there any programs that allow one to allot a certain ammount of bandwidth to individual programs? For instance, give downstreams of 50KB/s to mIRC, 70KB/s to DC++, ect. I'm thinking it's possible, since some programs, like WinMX, allow the user to limit outgoing and incoming bandwidth.

[Evil_Dweller_01]

If I understand you correctly, you would like a program that allows you to limit your incoming and outgoing bandwidth?

Well, most programs now have that kind of thing.... Ares, Shareaza, K++, Winmx, etc. Most of the programs now have it in their settings or preferances where you can limit both sides of bandwidth or just one....

Hope I helped

[Wings_of_Azrael]

I know of those programs' bandwidth management features. What I'm looking for is a separate program, that can manage all programs that access the 'net. Thanks anyways.

[Evil_Dweller_01]

Ahh... Thank You for Clearing that Up

I too would be interested to know if there is a program that can manage your bandwidth by itself.

[isus]

the only way i know of to limit bandwidth thru a p2p app is to use winmx, and then set it up to use the bandwidth limits... i think shareaza has a feature similar to this, but have never tried. kazaa (and all the hacks, etc.) should have a way to limit how much you send, but not how much you get.

[zaphodiv]

If you use a linux machine as a connection sharing box you can use shaped to allocated bandwidth based on the computers and ports it is going from/to.

You can do things like let port 6699 traffic(winmx) use all the bandwidth when nothing else is going through and throttle it when someone is web surfing.
Not paticularly easy to set up.

I don't known of a solution that throttles on the basis of which program is making the traffic.