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I have a small home network here made of 3 computers ,and one has internet connection.Can someone suggest a good way or program for linux to limit the internet bandwitdh usage?because when I download something my caulages internet becomes too slow.

You can use the iptables´s interface like shorewall or easier than, the webmin.

if you have a linksys router you can go into the QoS tab and limit which machines get more bandwidth by mac address.

billion routers also have very good QoS features.

In the end I finnaly got the answer in an irc channel .and the answer is wondershaper a small script that can handle the bandwidth limiting ,I recomend it to anyone with the same problem.

I think Squid is easy, check this URL http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/103080904.asp

Anyway if u want good way to do it:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/

Yep, traffic shaping is the best way to go. Though if you wanted to protect your home network as well as limiting the bandwidth, you could set up an IPCop or a Clark Connect on one of your machines to act as firewall and in Clark's case, mail server/file server and so on. It's very handy and easy to use and has a cute web interface. As a parting comment, I wish webmin would be reenstated into the debian etch package repositories.

has anyone have any xperience with traffic shaping on a linux-router (running debian for an example)
or lartc ??