bandwidth priority???

[hsncool]

hi.

YES, ITS LONG, BUT PLEASE READ AND DONT JUST IGNORE!

i download alot, and often find myself having to cap the download speeds of applications, and then uncap, inorder to get a higher bandwidth in another app.

alot of applications i use let you cap speed, like azureus, but i want to be able to set priority over bandwidth between apps, rather than set speed limits..

eg. if i have a 200kbps connection.
and im using azureus and ie. i could cap azureus at 100k, inorder to give my ie 100k. this is fine for browsing, but, then i go on youtube, and have to wait to buffer instead of being able to watch straight away. or....im on hexus reading some thread, which uses 0 bandwidth on ie. while doing so, im only using 50% on azureus, and it could be recieving the full 100%


i want to be able to choose which applications get priority, over full bandwidth, rather than shared, equal priority, and shared b/w.

eg...ie is just browsing textbased web pages, and uses 3k. the remaining unused 197k is left for azureus to use.
then!..i go on youtube, and start streaming a video clip at 30k. azureus b/w is reduced to 170k.


i want it to work with as many app's as required, at same time.

sorry for the essay.

thanx in advance

[Steve B]

theres packet monitoring software that allows you to prioritise different packets. not sure of any examples, but im sure someone else can point them out

[chrestomanci]

What you are describing is a complicated problem in network engineering.

The bandwith consumed by a connection is determined by the sending end adjusting the rate at which packets are sent. The receving end can crudely adjust the receiving rate by dropping the packets it receives so that it appears that they are not getting through due to connection problems, but it cannot adjust the priority of packets on a moment by moment basis.

You can get high end routers, that do the 'packet dropping' on incoming packets in order to limit the bandwidth used by P2P applications, but they are no better than limiting the rate in the application. This feature is know as QoS (Quality of Service). If you are sharing your connection with other people who run P2P (In a shared student house for example) then such a router might be usefull, but otherwise you may as way limit the rate on your download applications.

It is also possible to configure a Linux box with two network cards to act as a QoS router, so if you have an old PC and you are good with Linux this may be a cheaper solution.

[chuckskull]

http://www.cfos.de/speed/cfosspeed_e.htm simple but works a treat for me. Should be a free trial on there somewhere.

[badass]

In short what you are after is called QoS
Draytek routers support it for upload traffic but your ISP needs to implement it on their side for it to work on downloads. I dont expect they will
However if you are an a MAX broadband service they take the term Asynchronous to its extreme and you'll never need to use QoS on incoming traffic anyway

[adam1701]

I remember a program called netmonitor... which you could choose the allotted bandwidth to each process.

[dancingmatt]

This may not be what you are looking for, but I think the latest series of AMD motherboards have something like this. You can prioritise applications' use of the network I think.

Think it came with the 500-series SLI chipsets. Can't for the life of me remember what it's called though. If you haven't got one of these boards, it might point you in the right direction of something else that you can use...

Anyone care to fill in the blanks/remind me what this is?!

DM

[sTrAnGeFrUiT!]

http://www.cfos.de/speed/cfosspeed_e.htm simple but works a treat for me. Should be a free trial on there somewhere.

ill Second this ive been using it for months
my trail expired ages ago eveytime i start my pc it says trail expired X days ago please purchase
click ok and for some reason i still get full funcuality

[UltraMagnus]

you could try seeing if your router has a QoS manager, that will do something like your after.

i know mine (wrt54gl) does