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FYI, that link doesn't work.

i personally like netlimiter's free netlimiter 2 monitor. it'll show you your transfers for time periods ranging from hour-by-hour to over the past year and you can also track transfers by each application, so you can see how much is used by web browsing, how much by torrents, how much by WoW, etc.

It's quite tricky because, typically, the TCP/IP stack has no knowledge of which application is the originator of a particular packet.

Actually, it's completely trivial. All TCP (and UDP) activity from apps (and services) is made through the winsock and wsock32 DLL's and it's trivial to figure out the pid and tid of the caller using GetCurrentProcess() and GetCurrentThread(). I believe that this is how NetLimiter has always worked, setting itself up as a "Device Filter", and now Microsoft is "building in" that functionality to their own version of NetLimiter.

No, but you can do that in XP and (presumably) Vista using the excellent Netlimiter program.

http://www.netlimiter.com/

Back when I worked at an ISP with a shared bandwidth broadband solution, we would politely suggest that to the college jackasses downloading Bittorrent without setting it up to be network friendly (like we asked/demanded/etc). It really does work quite well.

I use a program called netlimiter. works wonders for managing all connections out from the PC. Unfortunately, its not a firewall so you cant completely block apps from accessing the net. You can at least see whats trying to connect and throttle bandwidth by program.

Its also got graphs and shit which is nice to see where all my bandwidth is going over a month/year period. I just looked at their site and aparently the new version has advanced filtering and a firewall. I dont think id go for that as right now the version that i have is about 800k - 1mb and really has no annoying features. I generally load this program on any computer that i would be working on for more than a few days.

Just limit the overall bandwidth of each computer to 1.6 mbps and all computers could actually be used in a 10mbit hub. And NetLimiter just installs quickly, on win98 even, without a fuss!

Try NetLimiter... you can set up/download limits on a per-app basis.

If you ever went to Arabia, they wouldn't need a legal reason to arrest / torture you. You'd just vanish or get beat to death by "holy" men. That's kinda the point.

However, if you are serious about helping, what I would suggest grabbing a copy of FreeNet and running a node. You don't even have to actively surf on it, IIRC, to allow it to make active copies of nodes, thus allowing "banned" content to get out.

IIRC, they had also included last time I ran it a built in proxy server/anonymizer, so you'd be helping in that way, too.

If you are concerned about Bandwidth, you can use Netlimiter to throttle it. I don't know of any Linux equivilants to Netlimiter, but I'm sure there's something (probably built in).

Second, my list. Almost all of my favorite programs are already mentioned in the +5 posts, so I won't list them all (there are a lot). Here's what's left of my top 25 or so programs I definitely install on a fresh Windows reinstall, in no particular order. Everything is free, unless otherwise noted. I don't think any of these are open-sourced, though.

• ObjectDock - OS X's sexy toolbar that expands when you mouseover is now available for windows, too. Tons of useful plugins available, such as a weather tracker and system monitor.
  
• Yz's dock - no link for this one because Apple killed it with a C&D letter. Same basic concept as ObjectDock; marginally better IMHO. If you really want it, google for yz_dck0083.zip.
  
• StyleXP - I can't believe no one's mentioned this one yet. Windows skinning, anyone?
  
• Crimson Editor - yet another lightweight (i.e., fast) file editor with extended functionality such as automatically coloring source code files.
  
• MetaPad - extremely lightweight file editor, a replacement for notepad.exe.
  
• Sothink SWF Decompiler - good for when I want to grab an image or sound out of a flash file.
  
• Google Toolbar - yes, it's created by Google, the next Big Brother, but I like the pop-up blocker, and the privacy issues are moot if you take the time to uncheck one box.
  
• Middle Man - for people like me who still use AOL's bread-and-butter AIM client, this is a great unofficial plug-in. Removes ads and adds a ton of new functionality.
  
• Peer Guardian - another biggie that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned before. Blocks the RIAA and its ilk from connecting to your machine.
• Total Recorder - (shareware/demo) captures all audio output and logs it to a wav or mp3 file. Good for stream ripping.
  
• NetLimiter - (shareware/demo) limit your maximum upload/download speeds, optionally on a program by program basis. Some firewalls already have this functionality, though... but not all.
  

This wonderful little program allows you to manage bandwidth usage on your Windows machine by application.

a better windows friendly way to do it is to pirate a program called netlimiter (or buy if your so inclined). ive been using it for months and got it for the purposes of easily changing the cap on the upload bandwidth of BT.

i couldnt figure out how to add that command line to the main program so when i click on a link it is always enacted as a rule. this program i highly recomend though as it allows me to cap any windows tcp/ip connection (doesnt seem to work for ipx). it has monitoring graphs as well as collecting statistics and monitoring all connections made in and out of the pc.

its also quite friendly on ram and cpu.

you can get it from here or buy it from netlimiter

People using Windows and wanting to throttle upload/download limits should look at NetLimiter.

There is also software that lets you throttle your bandwith on a program by program basis like netlimiter for windows

I'm using it with great success. Since your running the experimental client I assume your running windows. Just install the program and limit BitTorrents downloaed to 140Kb/s.

One thing I really like about NetLimiter is that it will carry the limits over to all processes. Say you have three Torrent d/ls going. I have 32Kb/s up so I could limit it to 28Kb/s up and that will allow all three downloads to have to share 28Kb/s while still leaving 4Kb/s so I can still surf the web.