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Uncle Peter · 15-04-2011, 12:07

You can run Squid under windows (which is open source code and free) but it's not really the ideal solution because it's a lot of faffing about, in fact the proxy server route can potentially be more of a hindrance than a help ie: if you start breaking things like vpn, authentication and p2p applications.

On many home routers you will be able to setup a QoS rule -say, for streaming media and apply an upstream or downstream bandwidth ceiling by MAC address. iirc you can certainly do this on the Cisco/Linksys E series routers.

15-04-2011, 12:07	#6
Uncle Peter 81-82-83-84 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: on holiday by mistake Age: 55 Services: Vivid 200, Full House, V6 x2 Posts: 5,977	Re: Traffic Shaping on my LAN You can run Squid under windows (which is open source code and free) but it's not really the ideal solution because it's a lot of faffing about, in fact the proxy server route can potentially be more of a hindrance than a help ie: if you start breaking things like vpn, authentication and p2p applications. On many home routers you will be able to setup a QoS rule -say, for streaming media and apply an upstream or downstream bandwidth ceiling by MAC address. iirc you can certainly do this on the Cisco/Linksys E series routers.