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canurabus

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Registered: 2012-02-12

Posts: 10

Script or util to limit network speed system wide?

Is there a simple script or small util out there that'll let me limit internet download and upload rates? I just care about limiting file transfer and streaming speeds through browsers, but don't mind if it's easier to shape all network traffic. My system has a wired NIC.

I tried to use trickle but it doesn't seem to work at all with chrome and it crashes firefox. I also tried to use wondershaper which seemed to work for setting upload and download rate limits, but then wouldn't allow me to change them back. Wondershaper also seems a little 'iffy' -- there's no man page or output for any of the commands you give and no real confirmation of what's going on.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Script or util to limit network speed system wide?

Here's 2 slightly different methods:  mine and using --set-mark.

These are not what I'd call "simple" though.