Bandwidth Throttling
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http://live.pirillo.com/ - There are ways to adjust bandwidth on an application by application basis, or even a device by device basis. Unfortunately, it’s basically not possible to limit bandwidth by website. There are ways you can assign priority to certain applications to allocate your bandwidth where you need it most.
If you’re like me, you probably have more than five different programs running accessing the internet. We’re chatting, IM’ing, browsing web pages, and checking our emails. You have a limited amount of bandwidth to use. You can only squeeze so much data through, no matter how hard you may try.
Unfortunately, I know of no way to limit the amount of bandwidth by website. However, I use a handy little tool called Thibor15c with my Linksys router to manage my bandwidth by application. I can assign priority to the applications I need most. For instance, my Vonage is the most important when I have a phone call coming in. You can choose to have XBox at the top of your list, or any other program that accesses the Internet you may need.
Another way to not necessarily control your bandwidth….but to make your surfing experience much faster….is to use this wonderful free program called Open DNS. What Open DNS does is to caches the DNS info for websites, and shortens the time it takes them to load. It also has cool little features like allowing you to define shortcuts in your address bar. For instance, if I type the letters gg into my address bar, my browser will automatically go to the website I have assigned to that shortcut. You can also set up shortcuts for typos…to correct them, of course. Have you ever accidentally forgotten the letter o in the .com extension of a web address? This typo feature will automatically add that letter o back in, and take you to the right place.
I’m definitely interested in hearing from you if you know of any ways to limit bandwidth on a website by website basis. You can always find us live in our chat room at live.pirillo.com or you can email me at Chris@pirillo.com
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4 Comments
Luben
August 17th, 2007
at 7:11am
Hi Chris
I would like to ask you if there is a way to limit bandwidth inside a flash application. for example in flash there is a getBytes function that return the number of bytes loaded. it is typically used in loadbars. if i run it for say 1 second i can get the current bandwidth tranfer rate but it is too high. is there a way to limit it to say 30k for instance inside flash? i watched ur Bandwidth Throttling video but its not exactly what im looking for.
i will greatly appreciate any help that u can give me.
Luben
August 17th, 2007
at 7:11am
Hi Chris
I would like to ask you if there is a way to limit bandwidth inside a flash application. for example in flash there is a getBytes function that return the number of bytes loaded. it is typically used in loadbars. if i run it for say 1 second i can get the current bandwidth tranfer rate but it is too high. is there a way to limit it to say 30k for instance inside flash? i watched ur Bandwidth Throttling video but its not exactly what im looking for.
i will greatly appreciate any help that u can give me.
Pat
January 2nd, 2008
at 2:52pm
Hi Chris
I have AT&T fast access dsl extreme, formally bellsouth. I have been experiencing slow Internet speeds. I called tech support. they tested my line and said my bandwidth is too high and they are going to send someone out to fix it.
Can you explain to me why high bandwidth would slow my connection and what I
can do on my end to control it.
Thx Pat
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