i want my internet back (while uploading photos)

January 2, 2009 5:08 PM

I'm having bandwidth allocation issues between different pieces of software on my Mac (10.5.5). When uploading photos using the flickr uploader or when the computer is backing up using Mozy, both of these programs tend to use all the available bandwidth on my dsl line. This makes it nearly impossible to use the internet for anything else on this machine or my PC laptop. Is there a way to adjust the bandwidth that these programs use?
posted by buttercup to computers & internet (4 comments total)

mozy has built in features for throttling --check the options. Take a close look at your dsl router and / or whatever other networking devices are in use to see if there are QoS (Quality of Service) settings you can make. This can sometimes be adjusted by switch port, service port, so on...
posted by ezekieldas at 5:27 PM on January 2

On windows there is a app called netlimiter that does excatly what you want - you can set upload/download limits for each program or service accessing the internet. Shame they don't make a mac version.

For mac, take a look at carrafix - seems to be the closest. It seems the main way people do this is with direct commands for the OSX firewall via the terminal, but that's not going to be a user friendly way of doing it.
posted by rmathew1 at 6:02 PM on January 2

On linux I've used trickle to do this. I'm not certain whether it would function on OS X.
posted by PueExMachina at 6:41 PM on January 2

I set Mozy to back up at 4:30 in the morning. Never conflicts with anything. If it does (like the first few days when setting up a new account) just set up throttling.

Mozy -> Scheduling
Mozy -> Bandwidth

Respectively.
posted by Ookseer at 11:57 PM on January 2