Webhog in my home! is there a program to restrict or limit bandwidth?

[RIGorous1]

Hi everyone,

My sister has moved back in with me for the summer and she wants to share my dsl line. The problem is that I know she is a bandwidth sucker. When she was at college this spring she was always downloading craploads of stuff, so I want to restrict her end of the bandwidth.

I currently get 768kbps max and I want to limit her to 384kbps, so its 50/50. Is there a program that will do so?

kinda like your own home lan capper?

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[Nebor]

Yeah, you say "Listen here, bi..." Nevermind, that plans not so good...

 

[capricorn]

What you are talking about is a network traffic shaper. If you have a Linux firewall between DSL and your internal network, there are a number of programs you can use as traffic shaping is built-in to the later (2.1+) kernels. If you're doing internet connection sharing through a Windows box, there are programs for that as well, but I've never really used them. If all you have is something like a LinkSys DSL Router to connect your internal LAN and DSL, I doubt you get that kind of functionality.

-cap

 

[RIGorous1]

Originally posted by: Nebor
Yeah, you say "Listen here, bi..." Nevermind, that plans not so good...

uh yeah....


any other ideas? there's gotta be a good program for this situation cause I'm sure there are others out there with a similiar problem like me...

 

[abr27440]

instead of a man in the middle aproach is there any programs that one can put on their computer that will limit the spead to and from non local IP addresses?

 

[RIGorous1]

yeah, or I'd even settle for a program that I could install on her computer that remotely caps her at 384kbps

 

[Viper96720]

If it's Kazaa, WinMX etc.... you can set the bandwidth limits in the program.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Everything I see while searching is for corporate networks and of course costs big bucks. And then there's Linux, which seems to offer several solutions.

If she doesn't know how to configure her P2P proggies, just sneak on there and lower their download bandwidth, and hopefully she'll be none the wiser.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Found one that lets you limit users' access to websites. Yes, I'm bored

Vicomsoft

Don't know how configurable it is, but it's free to evaluate.