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threestain · Apr 28, 2004, 07:09 PM

I use the Azureus bittorrent client and it takes over all the bandwidth available, which irritates my flatmates majorly. I know you can limit upload speed but is a way with azureus or any other client to limit the download speed too.

Any help would be good as it really does irritate him!

Cheers!

Socially Awkward Solo · Apr 28, 2004, 07:52 PM

ASAIK if you limit the upload you also limit the download.

threestain · Apr 28, 2004, 08:16 PM

no it doesn't directly limit, only indirectly (as your download speed is meant to be proportional to your upload speed. However this doesn't apply when there are loads of seeds and so you upload very little of the file.

Sarc · Apr 28, 2004, 10:00 PM

there is an app. that will do that for you ... can't remember the name though, it works in conjunction with Mac OS X's ipfw, there is also a bunch of scripts that will do this as well.

can't remember the name though, anyone ?

-Q- · Apr 28, 2004, 10:14 PM

There's also Tomato (Tomato Torrent?) that makes it easy to limit the upload speed.

I've found it to be kind of crash prone on occasion, but only infrequently. And when it works, it works very well.

Spheric Harlot · Apr 29, 2004, 09:55 AM

Originally posted by -Q-:
There's also Tomato (Tomato Torrent?) that makes it easy to limit the upload speed.

Yes, every BitTorrent client does that.

He's talking about DOWNLOAD speed.

The program Sarc is talking about is CarraFix. I believe it could handle download limiting as well. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7028

Unfortunately, the comments seem to indicate that it won't run properly in Panther.

-s*

threestain · Apr 29, 2004, 11:48 AM

Thank you - apparently its panther compatible but we will see!

-Q- · Apr 29, 2004, 03:01 PM

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Yes, every BitTorrent client does that.

He's talking about DOWNLOAD speed.

Whoops. Better add reading comprehension to my 'to do' list.

My mind probably refused to grasp the concept that someone would want to limit download speed.

Sarc · Apr 29, 2004, 09:20 PM

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
The program Sarc is talking about is CarraFix. I believe it could handle download limiting as well. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7028

Unfortunately, the comments seem to indicate that it won't run properly in Panther.

-s*

that's the one.
It will run in panther, however after the trial expires, it will stop doing it's job.
let me see if can find the name of the RC scripts that do this as well.

threestain · Apr 30, 2004, 04:08 AM

it may run in panther but doesn't seem to do much.

plus does anyone know which ports I'm meant to monitor - can't remember or find anything about them

yukon · Apr 30, 2004, 05:42 PM

I thought Sarc ment dummynet (apparently not), which works with or is a part of IPFW (depending on how you look at it). It was supposed to be in 10.2, wasn't, wasn't in 10.3, might be in now after the updates, but it's a real shame it hasn't been enabled in XNU, it's very useful.

There's also Throttle/throttled, which is open source, avalible for OS X. On Windows, "Bandwidth Monitor" may do it, NetLimiter does but has limited features. Available in probably all current Linux distros.

Bittorrent peers focus on uploading to those who upload to them. This is often called "tit for tat". Seeders will upload to a peer irrespective of the peer's ratio. Best not to throttle anything with BT except to leave yourself some upload bandwidth should BT consume it all, you'll want to help the community, or at least get the file before the tracker goes down.

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