download/upload limiter

TranceDude · 08-24-2005, 02:50 PM

hi

My little sister also want to use my pc but i prefer to limit the speed of the network because in the past she left some filesharing software open and i got smallband :d

So now i'm looking for software that can set a limit on the up/down speed

hope somebody can help

PS: there must be seperate up/down settings for each proces

teckk · 08-24-2005, 08:18 PM

Are you on a dial up (modem) or do you get internet through network interface.
For the latter there is
mii-tool
and
ethtool

TranceDude · 08-25-2005, 12:13 PM

network interface

teckk · 08-25-2005, 05:41 PM

Look at the man page for mii-tool or ethtool whichever you have and use. I think that will allow you to manually set your ethernet interface.

TranceDude · 09-25-2005, 04:44 AM

hi

i'm still a beginner and i'm looking for a progra mwith GUI to set the maximum upload speed, ...

Can somebody help me?

KPOM · 10-02-2005, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TranceDude
hi

i'm still a beginner and i'm looking for a progra mwith GUI to set the maximum upload speed, ...

Can somebody help me?

Windows is a great GUI to do things like that.
You can accomplish the same thing with the aforementioned tools - my personal preference is ethtool - just type "man ethtool" and you'll be set. If you can't read documentation.. well, I'll leave it at that.

TranceDude · 10-09-2005, 06:56 AM

hi

could you give me the arguments i have to give to ethtool to set the network speed to 15 kb/s for example?
I can't figure it out, i'm still new to linux

teckk · 10-09-2005, 11:16 AM

I am on a BSD machine right now, but if you issue

Code:

man ethtool

That should give you the manual page for it if you have it installed.
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ethtool8.html