cant get the damn bandwidth limiter working

[deeptech71 at gmail.com]

RW wrote:
> On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:52:56 +0200
> deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> pf and altq are enabled. My ISP allows 16kB/s upload and 128kB/s
>> download. I want to use half of that. What should pf.conf contain, to
>> limit my computer's upload and download speeds? I've tried:
>>
>> altq sk0 cbq bandwidth 1576Kb queue { lan, upload, download }
>> queue lan bandwidth 1000Kb cbq(default)
>> queue upload bandwidth 64Kb cbq
>> queue download bandwidth 512Kb cbq
>> block in all
>> pass in quick on sk0 from 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
>> pass in all on sk0 queue download
>> block out all
>> pass out quick on sk0 to 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan
>> pass out all on sk0 queue upload
>>
> 
> AFAIK ALTQ only queues outgoing traffic, and 
> 
>    pass in quick on sk0 from 192.168.0.0/16 queue lan 
> 
> means: send the packet to the lan queue if it's routed out via the
> interface to which "queue lan" is attached, i.e. back out via sk0 -
> which isn't going to happen. 

That would explain. So is there any way to limit the speed at which i'm 
downloading? Come on I've seen a bunch of software like this for Windows on the net!