Whats a good bandwidth shaper proggy?

[-_{MoW}_-Assasi]

As it says, i want a proggy that can limit bandwidth by IP, starting with Free ones, and then, maybe the next best one


EDIT- Reason being, i want to give myself more bandwidth, coz i play Battlefield, over my little bro, who plays Neopets/Gunbound/Runescape etc etc :p

[JerMe]

The only thing that comes to mind is to build a linux router/firewall out of old computer parts and use "iptables". It isn't a trivial thing, but it'll get the packet shaping that you wanted.

[-_{MoW}_-Assasi]

iptables eh?

And iv already got an old PC running as a router, but it has WINXP

What is iptables and does it work with WINXP?

[JerMe]

iptables is a hardcore firewall program for linux. lots of linuxheads use a linuxbox as a router & firewall for their networks, with iptables doing all the routing/blocking/packet shaping. afaik, iptables won't work with winxp, and i'm not aware of an iptables clone for windows.

if you're really serious about packet shaping, you could always join the linux darkside... :D

[JaY_III]

coyotelinux.com
Its sure makes everything easy doesnt it?
And best of all it runs of your old hardware...
P2 200MMX @ 224 with 64MB of ram for me

[-_{MoW}_-Assasi]

Anything for WINXP?

[thegreek]

iptables eh?

And iv already got an old PC running as a router, but it has WINXP

What is iptables and does it work with WINXP?

What software are you running on it to run as a router?

[tenchi86]

Could try netlimiter. It seems to work well for me. I think it has a network option also so that would help you. Basically it shows what bandwith the programs are using, and allows you to lower the rate they can use. Also shows things like how much bandwith each program has used in X amount of time.