Anyway to give one app bandwidth priority?

Kmodo

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Is there anyway to give one application (google chrome) absolute bandwidth priority on my media PC? Set and forget?

Live in a village and internet is on the slow side so don't have a lot of bandwidth to spare. I don't want to set limits for each application as it's a waste when not needing to limit e.g. watching an already downloaded movie, I'm not now using Chrome so want my other applications to run full speed.

I want to be on Chrome watching HD youtube videos or iplayer etc and all my other applications i.e. windows updates, steam\uplay\origin, nzb client, utorrent, dropbox etc to take whatever bandwidth left that Chrome is not using.

Does anything exist that can make this happen?

Thanks!
 
I've used netlimiter in the past and it did not do what I described I want to achieve? It instead wanted me to set a max speed for each application?

Has it changed to a priority based system?
 
Steveocee said:
No mention of what router you are using so hard to advise but yes you should be able to set some kind of QOS up (router depending) to prioritise either your PC or the protocol itself.
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Billion BiPAC 7800DXL is my router.

I just kinda thought I might have been missing out on some software that can prioritize the traffic of one application seamlessly without permanently capping the rest?

From reading the responses what I want is a bit more complicated than I imagined! :D
 
tribz said:
I used to use Cfos when I had a poor internet connection which worked very well.

http://www.cfos.de/en/cfosspeed/cfosspeed.htm
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Seems intermittent (though could be user error xD ). Sometimes it works a treat and sometimes not at all.

I decided to watch the quick settings tab and it was jumping between traffic priority level for the same application using the same protocol? e.g. "lower" low then "higher" jumping back and forth.

Also for the bandwidth intensive stuff youtube hd videos streams (chrome) and nzb downloads (newshosting) were using the same protocol.

Which meant I could not just go x protocol has priority.

It's a shame you can not just set it to ignore protocals and use ONLY rules set for programname.exe
 
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