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edmartin

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Jul 23, 2007
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I have searched through this forum as well as Google. I can't find an answer that suits my needs.

I would like to limit the bandwidth on 2 Macs on my home network. They belong to my daughters. Let's just say that they aren't as educated as readers of this forum as to which web sites hog band width and which don't - and as teenagers, I'm not surprised. That said, my wife runs her photography business out of our house and if she's in the middle of a huge upload, we don't need some streaming site that the kids are using crushing the overall network speed.

I have seen many posts about using "IPFW" commands through Terminal. However, those Terminal commands go away at reboot. I'm looking for something that is on until I turn it off.

I have come across an app call SpeedLimit. However, it also goes back to full-speed upon reboot.

Does anyone know of any packages that will do what I am looking for? Or short of writing code/scripts (never done that), is there something I can do in OS X to make it happen?
 
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