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bandwidth capping & QOS solution

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	0.5
Release Date:	2008-03-17
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,219
Downloads (all versions):	23,561

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Product Description:

Throttled is a bandwidth shaper for Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and linux which allows you to put a cap on your upstream bandwidth and keep your download speeds high even when your server is sending out at full speed. Features:

Allows you to set either a global throttle for all your applications, or multiple throttles with different speeds to guarantee all your servers a certain bandwidth
Allows you to setup priority queues for your network data to guarantee low-latency ssh, telnet, etc connections on your server.
Includes optimizations for many online games including Unreal Tournament 2004, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Ghost Recon, Starcraft, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, and Diablo II.
Prioritizes the ACK packet to allow consistant bandwidth in both directions even under heavy server load.
Flag for allowing you to throttle local network addresses 192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x. (By default only internet bound traffic is throttled)
It uses almost no resources. CPU usage is around 0 - 2% and it uses less than 500k of RAM.
Source code is freely available, and released under the GPL. Please read the COPYING file in the distribution.

What's new in this version:

The new release now supports full weighted queues thanks to Stefano Ciccarelli our first major contributor. Please make sure to look over the updated throttled-startup file since some of the syntax has changed. I have also updated this release so it compiles cleanly on Leopard.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

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Their idea of support is calling them via whois phone #! - Version: 0.4.6, 7/17/2007 10:59PM PST

moirex

This is a great product, an absolute must for those who want to run a Mac OS X server on a limited internet pipe. But if you don't like spending a day or more troubleshooting the program to try and get it to work this isn't for you...this wouldn't have been a problem if the support actually existed. There is NO support, I emailed them during business hours and got no reply. When I paid for the pro version of throttled I didn't even get my serial # until I did a whois on their domain and called them...if you rely on support then you may find it worth your time to avoid this product and all products this company makes as there is NO SUPPORT! But other then that this product is great, just takes some time getting used to how it works. TIP: If you have something like a FTP server which consumes a huge amount of ports like I did and which results in the throttled port being in use you will not be able to use the gui. Instead you will have to download the command prompt version, create the ipfw rules yourself and then start the throttled process yourself. It's not that hard if you don't mind reading the documentation and startup script for info on how to do both...

But again there is no support and since they seem to promise support this is a big no no to me...is anyone there?!

the throttled tools DO work with 10.4.3 - Version: 0.4.2, 12/26/2005 03:26PM PST

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Marty.Skinner

I too had some initial issues and questions about throttled (and Throttled Pro) on my Tiger system. But after doing some tests, examining the results and then sending an e-mail to the developer got everything working just fine.

The bottomline of why this product initially had trouble with my Tiger installation is that I already had several firewall rules in place. Throttled really doesn't know how best to automatically place its own rules within this context. For some it might work right away... for others the new firewall rules added may have no impact at all.

If you seem to find this product not "working", please examine your own firewall setups and try to place throttled's rules *before* other firewall rules that take effect even before the new ones get a chance. For me, I had to change my rule number to 00005 *and* delete a "check-state" from rule 00001, moving it to 00006. Throttled rules are now working for me.

The developer was very responsive to my e-mailed questions and suggestions for improvement. I couldn't ask for anything more.

/Marty

An easy way to launch and stop Throttled - Version: 0.4.2, 12/21/2005 08:06AM PST

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Denis Bajram (Denis Bajram)

Hi everybody.

Throttled is a perfect software. If you want to stop or start easily the engine, you can try my little utilities :

http://softwares.bajram.com/utilities/#Throttled_switch

And if you want more, buy the Throttled Pro shareware :-)

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