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Hi,

I need to ask your advice.

Can anyone recommend, a FREE software, to be installed in every PC / Laptop (Win XP ) to fix the amount of bandwidth they are allowed?

Thank you so much
 
Hmm ,don't any software for windows, but if you run a Linux computer as a gateway ,then you can limit using some free software. I'm sure some routers might do as well.
 
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When you say limit, do you mean say 100mb a day kind of limit or to limit someone to say 100kb/s ?

Ben
 
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I think he meant 100kbit/s, if it's 100mb, then he can use any parental control softwares, I guess
 
www.netlimiter.com

not free, but fully featured program, i use it...can be used to restrict upload/download for individual applications or even individual ip's connected to your machine within an application!! can be used to schedule bandwidth to certain programs at certain times..etc..etc.

Gives nifty little graphs and usage statistics too :)
 
Jarman said:
www.netlimiter.com

not free, but fully featured program, i use it...can be used to restrict upload/download for individual applications or even individual ip's connected to your machine within an application!! can be used to schedule bandwidth to certain programs at certain times..etc..etc.

Gives nifty little graphs and usage statistics too :)


I have heard of netlimiter but I believe you run it in server mode. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

There are some expensive routers that will controll the amount of bandwidth por every connecting PC. I don't know if there is a piece of hardware that connects to my router and limits the traffic to a MAC or range of IPs. The other way is to have a software like netlimiter running in server mode.

I don't want to have a server, running all day. I just want to install a piece of software in every computer that will allow me to say you are entitle to download at a rate of 128kbps or so.
 
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Netlimiter can not used in server mode, it is a per PC based software. each PC has to have its own copy running and the settings for bandwidth you want. Also worth metionting if you want to controll bandwidth centrally then this not the software for you. it gives user mode interface, therefore each user can change their limit. What you need is probably bandwidth controller (http://www.bandwidthcontroller.com). you can controller per interface or i guess per ip based as well. it runs centrally on the gateway.

Cheerio
 
sheedatali said:
Netlimiter can not used in server mode, it is a per PC based software. each PC has to have its own copy running and the settings for bandwidth you want. Also worth metionting if you want to controll bandwidth centrally then this not the software for you. it gives user mode interface, therefore each user can change their limit. What you need is probably bandwidth controller (http://www.bandwidthcontroller.com). you can controller per interface or i guess per ip based as well. it runs centrally on the gateway.

Cheerio


Actually, you clarified my question - thanks . I don't want to run the software in server mode, so it looks like I should try netlimiter after all. There is another software, DU super Controller at www.homeqos.com that I'm reviwing at the moment.
 
well in that case netlimiter is ur best bet as advised by keith. i have used it myself and it is a great piece of software. their recent version i guess 2 alpha is not my favorite but i like 1.30. they have integrated firewall in 2 alpha. one thing u would like to know is that netlimiter and Zonealarm dont get on well. Both use LSP (layered socket protocol). you can install netlimiter 1st and then zonealarm. it will work but ur IM wont be protected by zonealarm. other firewalls work ok with netlimiter well as far as my experience is concerned.


Cheers
 
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KDS said:
Hmm ,don't any software for windows, but if you run a Linux computer as a gateway ,then you can limit using some free software. I'm sure some routers might do as well.


I recall reading that there is various third party firmware available for certain linux based Linksys routers, which provides some sort of bandwidth managment. No idea if it would be suitable or not.

http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/38267
 
I installed DU SuperControler and its working fine so far. Keep fingers crossed.

To be honest with you I think Netlimiter is too much software for what I need. Having said that, if this DU Super User doesn't work well I will certainly take a look to Netlimiter.

Thanks all for your advice.
 
sheedatali said:
well in that case netlimiter is ur best bet as advised by keith. i have used it myself and it is a great piece of software. their recent version i guess 2 alpha is not my favorite but i like 1.30.

Well, I'm testing a copy of Netlimiter 1.30 and it looks good. I wish it was capable of taking a password.

The other piece of software, Du Super Controler is very good too and the settings can be secured with a password but it can only control / limit TCP protocol which makes it incomplete in my view :hrmph: If it could control UDP then I would prefer it over Netlimiter. I'm still testing and I will make up my mind in a day or two.

The main purpose of using this software is to control the downloading via p2p in the rest of the LAN.
 
salvador said:
...but it can only control / limit TCP protocol which makes it incomplete in my view :hrmph: If it could control UDP then I would prefer it over Netlimiter. I'm still testing and I will make up my mind in a day or two.

The main purpose of using this software is to control the downloading via p2p in the rest of the LAN.

I don't use P2P much (excluding my legal TV/radio show downloads); which clients were you thinking of that use UDP to carry the bulk of their traffic ? :hrmph:
 
I don't know about bulk but I know that emule uses UDP plus some games, etc.... that's why I'm still testing to see if I can get away with using only DU Super Controler... and the licence it's only $15
 
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well if you see in detail, DU Super shaper and Netlimiter work in entirely different ways. DU SS uses QoS provided by microsoft and some combination of LSP. that is why i can provide smoothing, and traffic classification. Netlimiter on the other hand does all from scratch, completly relying on LSP. both have their own advantage. a busy place where you want to use your full bandwidth and still provide smooth bandwidth to some application, you need DU SS. it works bit like linux bandwidth shaping system giving priority to interactive application traffic. In netlimiter you have to know what to limit and what not to. It is bit like having a car without traction control :P

Cheerio
 
sheedatali, I can tell you do know your bandwidth managers :)

So far, DU S C is doing the job. It has been a little of a guessing game to know exactly how much bandwidth to allow others. I took the view that there would be another 4 laptops connected to my router and I would allow them a maximun of 512 kbps, 128 kbps each. I have a 1MB connection and I expect to have the rest of the bandwidth for me. It looks like I need to restrict their bandwidth a little more as they seem to be using more than 512 kbps. I attributed this to the fact that some UDP traffic must be getting through.

Has anybody else been through this exercise of allocating bandwidth? I'd like to learn from their experinces.....


I think you can also use Netlimiter (v 1.30 ) as you use DU S C. In the top part of the screen "Overall" you can specify the amount of bandwidth and tick the little box. In my case that is exactly what I want to control, the overal speed. I don't care how the user manages his / her share of the bandwidth.

If this setup works well, I will upgrade my broadband connection to give everybody else a little more bandwidth :)
 
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