Chele
join:2003-07-23
| reply to cariboo
Re: Which web services (like kazza) should I block
We had one that was Windows based, it would limit the bandwidth, but not shape it. I think it was Brylan(Brilan?), It was better than nothing. However, once we installed BandwidthArbitrator(*nix), it was night and day. On the Brilan, we had to manually adjust the bandwidth to the ones that were hogging the line. Arbi(as they call it), took us about 20 minutes to get it running out of the box. It runs on a Pentium II, 400MHZ, with 128 of ram. You burn the ISO on a CD, and the PC boots from the CD. We bought Arbi when they firs came out with it, it costs us $159, and soon they started jacking up the price. It went to about $700 within a few weeks, and now they only sell it as an appliance($1800 or so). They offer a free version(Linux license), from what I understand, you lose some of the graphical features/reporting. But the bulk of the features are available in the free version. Some of the best $159 we have spent!! |
