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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. QoS by Iron+Chef+Unix · · Score: 4, Interesting

    QoS (Quality of Service) settings on your router might be the easiest method. I've never used it, but I know my LinkSys allows you to set priorities (High, Low) for either a specific LAN port, or a particular protocol. Assuming you know what program she is using, say LimeWire, you can also set a specific port (23, etc) to a low priority. I'd be interested to see what effect this has.

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  2. Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO by pbulteel73 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since I'm not too familiar with OS-X I don't know if this will work, but this is probably close enough to what you are looking for. LINUX Advanced Routing HOW-TO It would be interesting (to me at least) to know if the same tools apply on OS-X.