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Partitioning Bandwidth Using Mac OS X?

Posted by Cliff on from the better-quality-of-service dept.

dasboy has this query: "I was wondering if anyone knew of away to partition bandwidth amongst a group of computers running Mac OS X? I have a [few Macintosh machines] at home all on the same LAN and all on the same Internet connection. One of these machines is used by my daughter when she's home from school. The biggest problems happen when she begins downloading large files (I'll let you guess what she downloads <grin!>). I was wondering if there are any cool BSDish ways of constricting the amount of bandwidth her computer uses?"

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  1. Eep! by NegativeK · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll let you guess what she downloads

    I'll leave it up to everyone else with perverted minds to guess what _I_ thought of when I first read that.

    I feel like a bad person now.

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    1. Re:Eep! by Ponty · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, it's clearly illustrated recipes. Everyone knows that that's what God intended the Internet for. And the illustrations are very large. Where's your mind? Now I'm going to go enjoy my weiner that I've been working on all afternoon.

    2. Re:Eep! by joe52 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, it's clearly illustrated recipes. Everyone knows that that's what God intended the Internet for. And the illustrations are very large.

      Recipes for making babies...

  2. Guess what she's downloading? by spooje · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was porn huh?

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  3. NICE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Woah... his Daughter is a total porno freak! YEAAAAAAH!
    Mingisback

  4. Porn :rolleyes: by isorox · · Score: 4, Funny

    The biggest problems happen when she begins downloading large files (I'll let you guess what she downloads

    4 posts so far, 3 implying she downloads porn. You did ask for it you know :)

    QoS on the router would be the best bet in my uninformed opinion. Other then that a download manager that throttles her bandwidth

  5. Too bad by batobin · · Score: 5, Funny

    **sigh**

    This is the 4th young girl I've heard about this week succumb to the evils of Richard Simmons videos. Which is her favorite? The "Disco Blast Off", or the "Best of Latin Buns Burning"?

    Or is it....no....it couldn't be...."Getting Dirty with the 80s"? Oh, the humanity!

  6. What she downloads... by PKFC · · Score: 1, Funny

    She isn't studying that Ellen Feiss ad so she can win the 2003 North American Ellen Feiss Look-a-like bleep bleep bleep bleep Contest? You know the one where after the first round, like, half the contestants lose... which is kinda... a bummer...

    At least the girls (if there are any) in the contest are shaven... Unlike In Soviet Russia....

  7. Bandwidth Throttling by Patrick+Lewis · · Score: 5, Funny
    One solution is to say GET OFF THE DAMN COMPUTER!

    Well, that's what my Dad would have done.

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