All those wanting a bandwidth controller!

Deathwish · 29 Mar 2003 at 23:32

Finally there's a program that can limit bandwidth, and it works, although its still in beta.

http://www.bandwidthcontroller.com/

Have a look and see for yourself, run the ADSL speedtest @ www.adslguide.org

Lostie · 29 Mar 2003 at 23:55

It's bandwidth capping software for windows, doesn't do proper prioritising AFAIK. Downstream-wise it's NO better than the current BSD/Linux solutions - ie. FAR less than perfect.
It appears to calculate bandwidth based upon tcp/ip packet size - again a far from ideal solution but since it is the ONLY windows solution - it's not all bad

Conclusion: Good for experimenting with, almost equal to the BSD solution, but a Linux-based dsl_qos_queue solution will still outclass it by quite a margin.

Vietnow · 29 Mar 2003 at 23:57

nice one, ive always wanted one of these to stop other computers eating up bandwidth on my connection, youd think such a simple program would be common but it was no where!
cheers

Sone · 30 Mar 2003 at 00:23

seemed to do the job for me, downloading splinter cell demo at 27.5kb/s and playing dod with a ping of 40-60

edit - ping seems to be 80-100 on busier servers, but it doesent spike so its still very playable

Psilonaught · 30 Mar 2003 at 00:28

was looking to get something like this but hopefully will be getting 2Mbit next month which would mean being able to max out most IRC connections and still give 30-40 pings

Acolyte · 30 Mar 2003 at 07:42

Anyone know what i could do to fix it?

sik · 30 Mar 2003 at 11:14

Originally posted by Acolyte

Anyone know what i could do to fix it?

Wait for the next beta, or reinstall Windows, it maybe that your Windows Kernal is messed up, or the Beta can't find something that should be there.

Deathwish · 30 Mar 2003 at 11:26

Report it to their forums. URL in my first post

Acolyte · 31 Mar 2003 at 17:34

Originally posted by Sone
seemed to do the job for me, downloading splinter cell demo at 27.5kb/s and playing dod with a ping of 40-60

edit - ping seems to be 80-100 on busier servers, but it doesent spike so its still very playable

how does that work?
something to do in the way packets are sent?

if its even slightly over that ping will turn to rubish?

Sone · 31 Mar 2003 at 18:57

Originally posted by Acolyte
how does that work?
something to do in the way packets are sent?

if its even slightly over that ping will turn to rubish?

i upped the limit to 40,000 bps and it made gameing unusable, pings wern't to bad, but it was spiking like crazy, if i limit it to 20,000 i get perfect gaming even on busy servers, but 30,000 seems to be a good compromise of ping vs download speed

NathanE · 1 Apr 2003 at 14:41

Originally posted by Lostie
It's bandwidth capping software for windows, doesn't do proper prioritising AFAIK. Downstream-wise it's NO better than the current BSD/Linux solutions - ie. FAR less than perfect.
It appears to calculate bandwidth based upon tcp/ip packet size - again a far from ideal solution but since it is the ONLY windows solution - it's not all bad
Conclusion: Good for experimenting with, almost equal to the BSD solution, but a Linux-based dsl_qos_queue solution will still outclass it by quite a margin.

And confirms my point that Windows was fully capable of this all along.

I'm sure this product will develop into a well respected bandwidth manager. And looking on the 'Future Enhancements' section of the website has this line:

"June 2003
Configurable filter queue sizes. This will effectively give control over latency vs packet loss. "

.. seems to suggest something along the lines of your beloved Linux dsl_qos_queue

Jez · 1 Apr 2003 at 15:20

Well thats alnost linux's last reason for existing wiped out then

brilliant!

SDK^ · 1 Apr 2003 at 15:27

Originally posted by Sone
seemed to do the job for me, downloading splinter cell demo at 27.5kb/s and playing dod with a ping of 40-60

edit - ping seems to be 80-100 on busier servers, but it doesent spike so its still very playable

Just use a download manager like Get Right.
Set it to throttle your downloads @ whatever speed you like.

Acolyte · 1 Apr 2003 at 15:45

Originally posted by Sundance Kid
Just use a download manager like Get Right.
Set it to throttle your downloads @ whatever speed you like.

very true i was considering posting that, beat me to it :mad:

Lostie · 1 Apr 2003 at 15:52

Originally posted by nathan_e
"June 2003
Configurable filter queue sizes. This will effectively give control over latency vs packet loss. "

.. seems to suggest something along the lines of your beloved Linux dsl_qos_queue

It's called playing catch up, but until it calculates TRUE bandwidth (eg. ATM frames for ADSL rather than TCP/IP) then it will remain nowhere near as good

NathanE · 1 Apr 2003 at 17:46

Originally posted by Lostie
It's called playing catch up,

Possibly true, but definately not in the sense of the OS.. The capability has been there since 9x, albeit a little more hassle to the programmer, NT really added the icing on cake for it.

Vai · 1 Apr 2003 at 18:14

Excellent, I am going to install this on my server now

How much is this slowing your download and upload speeds by?

barlymarly · 1 Apr 2003 at 19:55

this program completley screwed up my comp. It was asking me about the page file and all sorts. As soon as I booted in safe mode and unistalled it everything was fine.

btw i'm running xp without sp1

NathanE · 2 Apr 2003 at 09:39

Why no SP1? Might be worth trying with it...

Also remember its only Beta, so might be worth reporting this problem on their forum.

BassPunk · 7 Apr 2003 at 10:53

i tried getting this to work for an hour with 3 comps and it does work

try it