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I share my internet connection, which is very slow, with two friends. When one of us tries to watch a video or download something, he usually "eats up" all the bandwidth. All of us use Firefox and want to control the bandwidth only for this browser.

The problem is that we use both Linux and Windows, and changing an OS is not an option. Is there either a solution that works for both operation systems, or separate solutions for each OS?

I've seen something called throttle but it works only with old releases of Firefox. is there any other option to do this?

Configuring QoS is not an option since the modem doesn't give that option.

poz2k4444
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On Linux, you could use trickle, which works for any application.

For example, running

$ trickle -d 50 -u 10 firefox

in the terminal will start Firefox and limit it to 50 kB/s download and 10 kB/s upload. For Firefox, make sure no other instance is running.

On Windows, you might give give a shot on Google. My first hit was NetLimiter, non-free, unfortunately.

For a more reliable and network-wide and cross-platform solution I recommend looking at configuring QoS on your router.

gertvdijk
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If useful, I'm doing it on Windows using an old version* of NetBalancer (v3.1.1). This allow you to limit the download and upload bandwith of every process, and remembers the values. Note that you will need admin privileges because it is installed as a controller and add a service.

(*) The last version, v9.4.1, has this feature only during the trial period.

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