Giving applications higher priority for internet bandwidth?

[vj8usa]

Is there any way to assign priority for up/download speeds? Let's say I'm browsing occasionally but have a torrent or two running in the background - can I make Firefox higher priority so that it gets all the bandwidth it wants when I use it, and then gives it back to the torrents when idle?

 

[nickbits]

Use a torrent program that can throttle itself.. like uTorrent.

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: nickbits
Use a torrent program that can throttle itself.. like uTorrent.

What do you mean? I use utorrent, but as far as I can tell, it can't throttle the way I want it to. All I can see are options to set maximum up/down speeds.

 

[Tarrant64]

You may be able to do it on your router. Otherwise in uTorrent you can 'throttle' traffic I think by right-clicking on the current download and choosing the priority. That could just be for multiple torrents and doesn't apply to the actual bandwidth. Could have sworn though there was an option there.

For the kind of thing you're trying to do I would suggest making the settings on the router to allow this. A D-Link gaming router for example uses a "GameFuel" feature that sets priority on whatever games you select so they get the most bandwidth. I'm sure other routers have similar functions.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: vj8usa

Originally posted by: nickbits
Use a torrent program that can throttle itself.. like uTorrent.

What do you mean? I use utorrent, but as far as I can tell, it can't throttle the way I want it to. All I can see are options to set maximum up/down speeds.

Ouch, my head.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: vj8usa

Originally posted by: nickbits
Use a torrent program that can throttle itself.. like uTorrent.

What do you mean? I use utorrent, but as far as I can tell, it can't throttle the way I want it to. All I can see are options to set maximum up/down speeds.

Ouch, my head.

I think he wants it done dynamically though. All uTorrent lets you do is lock in a speed. I'm with the router suggestion. That's probably the easiest way.

 

[vj8usa]

Cool, thanks. I was looking through my router settings and it looks like QoS is exactly what I need to use (and yeah, I meant dynamic throttling so that my torrents would automatically slow down when I started using Firefox or something, but use as much bandwidth as possible when nothing else wants the bandwidth).