To limit bandwidth in osx
There may come a time when you want to limit your http download bandwidth coz it’s taking up all your bandwidth. I came across two apps that try to accomplish this task but I am afraid to say they are too hard to understand. So let’s just do this in the terminal. 1. First, create a pipe/rule that allows 100KB/s sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 100KByte/s 2. Then assign that pipe to port 80 which is the remote web server’s http port #. It’s src-port coz the data is coming into your computer. sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80 ...