[X-Unix] Limiting thru put

[John Harrold]

Sometime in May Russell McGaha assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Folks;
|     I don't know if this is possible; but I thought I'd ask anyway.   
| Is there any way to limit the throughput/bandwidth usage of an  
| interface.  I'm limited to Satellite access and there are times [when  
| I'm trying to get a large file ... say a CD image for instance] when  
| I'd like to throttle my usage to say 25-30kps; this way I could start  
| the D/l when I go to bed and it would be finished when I got up.   
| Currently what happens, is after about an hour of full bandwidth  
| usage I'm throttled down to 1-4kps [by the provider - Direcway] till  
| the d/l finishes and I'm idle for a while.
|     So back to the question; Is there a practical way to limit the  
| bandwidth usage to a set amount?

I don't have any OS X experience but what you are looking for is something
that provides something called 'quality of service'. You can look around
for things that do 'bandwidth shaping' or 'bandwidth throttling'. A quick
google search turned up the following:

http://www.carrafix.com/

which looks like what you want.

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