I don’t usually post about shareware, but this program is the only one of its kind that I can find.  If anybody knows of a freeware program that does the same as Netlimiter, please post it in the comments.  Netlimiter is a great program that lets you monitor and change the limits for download and upload speed.  I’m using it to limit upload speeds for different applications since the upload speed really effects my whole home network.  If I’m uploading a lot, then somebody else on the network will probably experience a slow internet connection.

Many programs, like torrent downloaders, allow you to set limits on speed, but some programs don’t.  An example of this is downloading an update for World of Warcraft.  It uses P2P, which uploads and downloads, but doesn’t allow you to limit the upload speed.  With Netlimiter, I just find World of Warcraft on the list of programs and set the upload limit to 5k or 10k.  That way it won’t take up all of my internet speed.

Netlimiter is not free, unless you just want to use it as a bandwidth monitor.  If you want it to actually control your speeds, then you’ll have to buy the pro or lite version.  The lite version seems like it would be enough for me since it includes the limiter, but the pro version includes things like a scheduler and permissions editor.  Like I mentioned before, it would be nice to find a freeware program that did what Netlimiter does.  The freeware program would have to be able to limit upload and download speeds and not just monitor them.  I’ve searched for one, but can’t find any.  Let me know in the comments if you know of one.