internet priority

[dornick]

Just a thought; can I put programs into a lower internet priority level?

IOW, if I'm using a download manager, can I specify it to only use the leftover bandwidth from the other programs, sort of like spare CPU cycles? Or does bandwidth not work this way?

 

[BlueWeasel]

I don't know how you would implement something like that.

 

[Nothinman]

I don't believe Windows has anything like this by itself and I would also guess that anything made for Windows to do traffic shaping or QoS would cost a pretty penny. That and they're usually pretty difficult to configure. Linux has that stuff in the kernel already, it's free and you can use tc to set it up.

 

[bocamojo]

You could probably setup a linux box to do bandwidth throttling / traffic shaping on your internet connection (would act like a firewall within your LAN, interfacing between your Windows PC and your linux box).