Progressive bandwidth throttling

I'm looking for a bandwidth limiter to share out a 2Mbps Internet
connection among several users, but with a particular requirement that
I haven't been able to find....

What I'd like to do is this: Within a single client-to-host
transaction (eg. downloading a web page, FTPing a file, etc), allow
the full 2Mbps bandwidth to anyone for a short time (eg. a couple of
seconds), then cut it down to 1Mbps for a few more seconds, then down
to 512kbps for a while longer, finally throttling them back to say
256kbps after 30 secs or so. Maybe real hogs might even get cut down
to 128 or 64kbps. The idea here is that "normal" users who are just
browsing web pages will have a high effective bandwidth, and bandwidth
hogs doing things such as downloading audio/video get throttled back
to prevent them locking out the "normal" users.

(I'm happy to consider either a Linux or Win2K solution, hence the
cross-post).

Clive Backham wrote:

> I'm looking for a bandwidth limiter to share out a 2Mbps Internet
> connection among several users, but with a particular requirement that
> I haven't been able to find....
>
> What I'd like to do is this: Within a single client-to-host
> transaction (eg. downloading a web page, FTPing a file, etc), allow
> the full 2Mbps bandwidth to anyone for a short time (eg. a couple of
> seconds), then cut it down to 1Mbps for a few more seconds, then down
> to 512kbps for a while longer, finally throttling them back to say
> 256kbps after 30 secs or so. Maybe real hogs might even get cut down
> to 128 or 64kbps. The idea here is that "normal" users who are just
> browsing web pages will have a high effective bandwidth, and bandwidth
> hogs doing things such as downloading audio/video get throttled back
> to prevent them locking out the "normal" users.
>
> (I'm happy to consider either a Linux or Win2K solution, hence the
> cross-post).

You could probably do this with Linux http://www.lartc.org .

Andy.

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:32:39 +0100, Andy Furniss
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>You could probably do this with Linux http://www.lartc.org .

Thanks for the pointer. Now all I need to do is try and understand it!