network traffic shaping (geek question)

[tigersaw]

Openreach man has installed infinity, and the speed is about 36mbit, pretty fast compared to my old broadband at 6mbit.
However, there is already a problem. Me and mr Openreach were messing about with it, and found in some instances its a bit too fast. For example we went to Iplayer and clicked on a HD programme, watched a few mins, then messed with youtube. In about 30 minutes we had eaten a Gb of my 40Gb monthly limit. It seems to be buffering at full bandwidth, for instance youtube clips buffered in just a second.
What I (think) I need is a 'traffic shaper', so I can slow down the link on my main lan connected windows 7 pc, leaving the wireless stuff alone.
Am I on the right track? I've come up with 'netlimiter' as a freeware program that might do the trick.

Slowing down isnt a real fix, if you watch a video on youtube that 100mb then it wont matter if it takes you 30seconds or 5 mins to download it, you have still downloaded the same amount

[timwilky]

So your concern is that you are quickly going to eat your monthly allowance due to performance improvements.

1) get the right package
2) don't use it as much.

Your choice.

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by grimey121uk

Slowing down isnt a real fix, if you watch a video on youtube that 100mb then it wont matter if it takes you 30seconds or 5 mins to download it, you have still downloaded the same amount

Well not in the case of the iplayer - was just having a look at the start, but it buffered (probably) the whole program, since the grey bar had run all the way across.

The word you are looking for is unlimited

[tigersaw]

s'allright, netlimiter works a treat.
No need to upgrade package, and it wont download the whole youtube clip when someone embeds one in a thread and I just take a look at the first 10 seconds to see if it is interesting or not

Either buy a very, very long Ethernet cable or tie a knot in the one you have. That will slow the traffic between the router and the PC. Problem solved.