Limit bandwidth per application

Hi there,


I am looking for a way to limit bandwidth per application under Mac OS X Lion ; either with a dedicated app or Terminal command.

I didnt find any tools with Google or App Store : does that mean "limiting bandwith" is a *bad* idea ?


The purpose is mainly to limit iTunes !



Thanks for advise.

Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 2, 2012 2:06 AM

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Mar 26, 2013 11:23 AM in response to OAADKTBA

I found a way to do this. It's a bit roundabout but it works. Rather than limit per application, you limit per server. For example I notice adobe creative cloud usually takes over my entire network connection when it's uploading a file to the cloud server, making it a pain to even browse the internet when it's sending a large file. Using little snitch's network monitor I see it's sending data to "creative.adobe.com", I enter that server into a program called speedlimit and set how much data it should send to that server. Fixed.


little snitch:

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html


speed limit:

http://mschrag.github.com/

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