I was recently at the office blitzing a download for Visual Basic 2008 express on the High speed DSL line. Suddenly the folks around me started grimacing and cursing their computers in unison. I realized that my download was putting a lot of work on hold, and so I was forced to close it and wait for a more opportune time.
Whenever I’m in a situation like this, I start thinking about code. That makes me wonder if there was a way to control the traffic on every workstation in the network. I was quite sure that there would be many applications available to professional network administrators to aid in the task at hand. Making one from scratch would be a worthwhile waste of time :D But I had way too much work to sit and break my head over this right now. So a ready made solution it had to be…!
A few Google searches later I stumbled upon “Traffic Shaper XP” (click here to download). This is what it looks like:
To start checking your bandwidth, simply go to View> Options > Internet. Here choose a bandwidth limit for uploads and downloads from this computer. That’s all there is to it. Just be careful, as the settings you choose are in kiloBITS per second. So divide the number by 8 to get the limit value in kiloBYTES per second. I set my download limit to 512 kbits/sec allowing me upto 64 kBytes/sec. This download limit is now shared between all the active downloads on my computer.
So all you downloaders out there, download with ethics. “Surf and let surf”. Cheers!
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