Topic: Limiting Bandwidth Usage

[Brett Knuchel]

We have a problem in that we are using a dialup connection and when someone sends out a large email attachment it chokes up the connection for everyone else.  Is there a way of limiting the bandwidth for outgoing email connections?

[Shane]

Search for "CBQ"

[Krusty]

under /etc/sysconfig/cbq there is an example file of how to control bandwidth by ip address change this or recreate it to suit yourself. Works okay until you get a heap of users it gets a bit lost when there is more then 50 -100 entries. Give me an email if you get stuck and i will help you out. Dont forget to stop and start cbq after you have created the files hope this helps. I know the feeling as my missus gets onto shareware sites and was hogging all the bandwidth too. So i had to fix it and it works fine

[chris isidro]

the only way is to upgrade your internet thru either DSL or any connection much higher,,,dialup handles only 56 kbps so why go to DSL