delimare
04-08-2007, 12:20 AM
Here’s the scenario. Comcast offers a patent pending service called PowerBoost. How it works is like this: I pay for 8mb down and a little under 1mb up. PowerBoost will kick in and allow me to get double my download and upload speed (although I’ve clocked it at almost 30mb/s down and sometimes 3mb up) for a certain amount of bandwidth before it brings me back down to what I pay for. I’m not sure what the specifics are but it lasts for 15-30 seconds at a pop and then drops you back down to what you’re actually paying for. The PowerBoost WILL NOT kick in again until the amount of usage falls to a certain percent for a certain amount of time.
I download from newsgroups at around 10mb/s without PowerBoost and that is fine for me, plenty fast. I do upload the occasional torrent though here and there and it would be nice to have that PowerBoost most of the time. The only way I can imagine doing this is to find a program that will limit and then un-limit my upload minutes at a time.
Example: I’m uploading a 5 GB movie using uTorrent. I set the upload cap to 75kB/s and wait 5 minutes. When I select unlimited, my upload skyrockets to 300kB/s with PowerBoost. When that is finished and it falls back to 90kB/s I limit it to 75 once more for 5 minutes. When unlimited is again selected it will rocket back to the 300 mark until it exhausts itself and I need to rinse and repeat the procedure.
Since I don’t plan on sitting in front of my PC all day and repeating this every 5 minutes, I’m on the prowl for a program that might do this for me, something like a netlimiter but with minute increments. Are there any programs out there that could do this? It would just be nice to get that extra oomph out of my service if I can, especially when uploading larger files.
I download from newsgroups at around 10mb/s without PowerBoost and that is fine for me, plenty fast. I do upload the occasional torrent though here and there and it would be nice to have that PowerBoost most of the time. The only way I can imagine doing this is to find a program that will limit and then un-limit my upload minutes at a time.
Example: I’m uploading a 5 GB movie using uTorrent. I set the upload cap to 75kB/s and wait 5 minutes. When I select unlimited, my upload skyrockets to 300kB/s with PowerBoost. When that is finished and it falls back to 90kB/s I limit it to 75 once more for 5 minutes. When unlimited is again selected it will rocket back to the 300 mark until it exhausts itself and I need to rinse and repeat the procedure.
Since I don’t plan on sitting in front of my PC all day and repeating this every 5 minutes, I’m on the prowl for a program that might do this for me, something like a netlimiter but with minute increments. Are there any programs out there that could do this? It would just be nice to get that extra oomph out of my service if I can, especially when uploading larger files.