http://www.netlimiter.com/
this is a very nice piece of software which is used to limit the transfer rate for each program which is using the internet by specifying an upload or download limit. Why is that useful? well some programs tend to swamp the internet connection.
In this case i am downloading fedora isos with Opera so i set a download limit and browse the net comfortably while my download is taking place. Actually i have found that opera is the no.1 download client and thats all i use it for. You can even stop the download and close opera and then happily resume again another day.
Also netlimiter is useful to see what is going on and you can catch some spyware or even be suprised how much traffic one program is making. Some people were suprised to see that skype making a lot of traffic when idle. Why is that? well skype is a p2p application and can use your computer on occasion to allow people behind very restrictive firewalls to talk to each other........with netlimiter you can limit the skype traffic when you are not making calls if you wanted to stop that practice...
you might ask why does the screen capture show a speed of 65351 when I have limited opera to 60000? well actually the transfer rate seems to bounce around in the software so i think it is averaging 60000.
you can also change the units of the transfer speed (now its in KB) and also do stuff like see the applications with their full names.
This software is proving very useful to me. Highly recommended.
this is a very nice piece of software which is used to limit the transfer rate for each program which is using the internet by specifying an upload or download limit. Why is that useful? well some programs tend to swamp the internet connection.
In this case i am downloading fedora isos with Opera so i set a download limit and browse the net comfortably while my download is taking place. Actually i have found that opera is the no.1 download client and thats all i use it for. You can even stop the download and close opera and then happily resume again another day.
Also netlimiter is useful to see what is going on and you can catch some spyware or even be suprised how much traffic one program is making. Some people were suprised to see that skype making a lot of traffic when idle. Why is that? well skype is a p2p application and can use your computer on occasion to allow people behind very restrictive firewalls to talk to each other........with netlimiter you can limit the skype traffic when you are not making calls if you wanted to stop that practice...
you might ask why does the screen capture show a speed of 65351 when I have limited opera to 60000? well actually the transfer rate seems to bounce around in the software so i think it is averaging 60000.
you can also change the units of the transfer speed (now its in KB) and also do stuff like see the applications with their full names.
This software is proving very useful to me. Highly recommended.
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