bandwidth capping

[Peegee]

Is there a way to cap the downstream/upstream that the computer can handle using windows XP? I am currently using a shareware program to do this, and wondering whether or not I should not need to be using such a thing if XP has some sort of built-in bandwidth throttler.

[Citizen Bleys]

Not that I'm aware of, and I've studied XP Professional to the certification (Exam 072-270) level.

That's not saying that it's not there--the Windows 2000 Pro cert, unlike the XP Pro cert, doesn't cover certain command-line utilities (robocopy and scopy)--but the likelihood is fairly small.

You can do it by editing the registry--You might find some hacks on dslreports.

[crono_logical]

I'm not aware of any either. Application level bandwidth capping is nicer anyway, since you can prioritise your downloads more easily. Or go install a Linux box between your Windows machine and the internet connection that has bandwidth shaping support enabled, which could also double up as a firewall :p

What software are you using at the moment anyway?

[Peegee]

it could be this one (http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/10/7/10-7-115.shtml), but the link I used was this one (http://download.com.com/3000-2085-10188777.html?tag=lst-0-1)

The difference is that one is ver 0.1 and the other is ver 0.04