Traffic throttling

mr-simon · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: Traffic throttling

I want to throttle my own p2p traffic during certain times of the day, so that a) I get good speeds with online games, general browsing and whatnot, when I'm actually trying to use the connection -- and b) so that my ISP doesn't get irritated and decide to start doing it for me (they measure peak-time usage when deciding whether to kick in their fair use policy)

I'd like a script that throttles incoming traffic down to 75K/sec on the ports I know I'm going to be sucking down bittorrent files on, which cron loads at 6pm and unloads at midnight each day. Can anyone point me to a readymade script, or a simple howto?
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Dan · Veteran Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 1302

can't you easily set that throttle in your bittorent client?

Captain_Loser · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 106

Behold, the mighty gentoo wiki.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping

There are lots of different ways to do this, just google linux packet shaping.
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mr-simon · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject:

KWhat · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 660 Location: Los Angeles

mr-simon

If you use azureus their is a plug in to do exactly what your looking for.

Here is the link http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=SpeedScheduler

Their is also one that works on network load. http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=autospeed