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What is the best way, under OSX or Windows, to selectively limit upload (or download) speeds per-application?

Is there a way? It would be so nice if something like this were built into the OS, but is there any kind of third-party software which will do that?

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http://superuser.com/questions/135719/windows-program-to-lim...

NetLimiter (free) and NetBalancer (paid, free for 5 processes) have been the go-to solutions for Windows for a little while.

IceFloor (http://www.hanynet.com/icefloor/index.html) is the OSX (10.7+) analog.

http://superuser.com/questions/474255/is-there-a-free-local-...

also lists http://bandwidthcontroller.com/trafficShaperXp.html

Sadly IceFloor doesn't seem to have an option to quickly filter out in a per-program basis. And Little Snitch, well…maybe a bit overpriced if it's just to block Spotify (hell, they should be the ones providing a setting for that).

Found this on its page, though I don't have the chance to check it out:

  > monitor applications connections , block outbound connections
  > to unwanted services (block chat, p2p...)

on OSX: Little Snitch

on Windows: Netlimiter

He's asking for something to "selectively limit upload (or download) speeds per-application?" not how to block an application from communicating at all. (Little Snitch)

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