Limiting Bandwidth Usage

[JulesBravo]

I'm setting up a personal network at my house, the only problem I have is my little brother uses kazaa and bittorrent madly. My question is how do I limit the amount of bandwidth he gets? Can I set it up for him max download is like 50k and upload like 25k? Oh yes, one little problem here though. The dirtly little monster uses a mac with OS X.

 

[draconius]

do you have a router setup yet?

if not, install clarkconnect, it has features built into it for bandwidth limiting, as well as it is a very functional and secure firewall, and also has many many more features. http://clarkconnect.org

 

[EmpathY]

I have a Linksys router, what would be the best approach to do a bandwidth limit?

 

[deuce868]

I have to agree with dracon up there. I recently picked up ClarkConnect and the bandwidth tools are easy to set up and use. I don't know if the free version does it, but you might look into it. The only thing I find lacking is that often times with rules like bandwidth regulating you want to apply times to them (at least in an office environment) which is not possible.

 

[draconius]

the free version does support the bandwidth limiting, and I *believe* that if you are good with scripting you could make clarkconnects linux backend do something with the time thing, only allowing so much traffic at a certain time..take a look at your iptables/ipchains scripts....but realistically, your business policy sholdnt be something that flexible, it should be okay you get 100KB/s of http traffic total, no matter what. IMO anyways.