Cross flatfrom bandwidth limiter for single pc

[dodimar]

I have a small home network. 2 desktops (1 WinXP, 1 Linux/WinXP, 1 portable. I am using a Linksys wrt4gc v.2.0 router. I have no server.

My questions is, is there a bandwidth limiter (open source) that I can install on each PC so that when one pc is downloading something it won't eat up all the network/internet bandwidth?

Thanks...

[iLoveRuby]

In Windows, I love NetLimiter.

In Linux, you can fairly easily do it with "squid".

First, find out if you already have squid:

squid -v

If you don't, get it:

sudo apt-get install squid

You'll need to use "delay pools" as described in the documentation.