http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/2849/
I think that full control (and measurement) of the bandwidth for each application would be more flexible. You may think I'm crazy wanting to limit my bandwidth when the whole planet wants to increase it, but I think that the feature is much needed in the following cases:

- to control applications without built-in BW control (synaptic, firefox, etc)
- when the ISP imposes volume limits
- in places where one is accounted or monitored for traffic
- when the PC should not be seen uploading or downloading in an uncontrolled way (in schools, universities, work this will immediately trigger alarms)

Personally, on Windows I cannot live without Netlimiter, which apart from BW control has a very nice per-app firewall, displays charts, stats, connections and a lot of other vital info per network adapter.

Perhaps I'm describing a new utility rather than an Ubuntu idea, but since I don't know whether it is supported by the kernel and/or tcp/ip I have to post it as an Ubuntu networking idea.

[394 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2849


[702 votes] Solution #2: Add a Network tab to the System Monitor


[-257 votes] Solution #3: Use a separated application, e.g. wireshark


[-151 votes] Solution #4: Text Overlay


[6 votes] Solution #5: Show process network usage in system monitor Processes tab


]]> en-us Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:48:00 +0000 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:58:42 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2849/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:51:58 +0000
Props and +1!]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:21:31 +0000
+1

I was the one who did idea #553, which #2806 was a duplicate of... and I like this idea much better. ]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:13:27 +0000
See http://freshmeat.net/projects/tkcybernetics/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcircuit/
or
http://freshmeat.net/projects/tkgate/
for seeing what I mean for cicuit-based interface. I think it's more convenient than list-of-rules based interface.

]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:05:22 +0000 This is one of the applications that I miss most here in Ubuntu.]]> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:37:36 +0000
Cheap ass retards will connect to DC++, Gnutella, FastTrack, etc and download stuff from other people while caping the upload so it goes slow as hell for anybody who want to download from them.]]> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:47:13 +0000 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:58:25 +0000 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:51:29 +0000 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:13:27 +0000 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:38:49 +0000 ]]> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:21:20 +0000 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:04:51 +0000
Another application is, when I'm downloading on my PC (with DownThemAll!, FF-AddOn), my father/brother/sister cannot surf, it's too slow. And I neither, other apps like firefox have not sufficient bandwidth. Loading websites need much time.

Perhaps it would be also possible, that apps(like Download-Managers) could use this "Interface" and limit like that easily the bandwidth for separate Downloads...]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:04:43 +0000
+1]]> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:31:40 +0000 I miss netlimiter here on ubuntu. Can't believe there's no tool to do this aleady.]]> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:58:53 +0000