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Bandwidth management

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/bandwidth-management.136721/

r4gs
r4gs Original post #1
Feb 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM
Hi,
Need some help.

I've got utorrent running automatically whenever my PC runs.

The problem is that whenever my mom or dad browse, they forget to pause it, or if they pause it, they forget to resume the torrents.

Is there any software which will automatically restrict bandwidth to utorrent and give priority to a browser? specifically opera 11 in my case.

I think digit had a Download of The Day which did the same but am not able to remember its name.

Free software only please..... :)

Thanks
nims11
nims11 #2
Feb 8, 2011 at 7:09 PM
right-click the torrent on the downloading list, choose Bandwidth allocation to Low.
this should help
r4gs
r4gs #3
Feb 9, 2011 at 2:48 PM
and this will give priority to browsers over the torrents?
nims11
nims11 #4
Feb 9, 2011 at 4:44 PM
it will give utorrent less priority when other application is using the network
r4gs
r4gs #5
Feb 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Experimented with it a bit. it does seem to work but is a bit hit and miss. it usually manages to halve the bandwidth for the torrents but doesn't always do so.
Thank you all the same.

I did manage to find the software that was on download of the day. IT is called netlimiter. I am not able to instal it on my pc as it keeps crashing.
R
Feb 10, 2011 at 9:32 AM
try downloading NetBalancer - internet traffic control and monitoring tool

free version and set browser higher priority and utorrent bit lower

Netbalance will AUto allocate more bandwidth to firefox when using firefox