throttled for Mac

I have used versions prior to the 0.5 release and had a dismal outcome. I installed the program not long after I bought my first mac and was flummoxed as to why my LAN speeds were pitifully slow. Some 12 months or more later I had an epiphany - could it be that Throttled was stymieing my LAN speeds and not just WAN as was intended? Removing this program made me a very happy LAN person. I am not sure if this program helped me shoot myself in the foot or it is just plain evil. The former is more likely, but I am still perplexed.

This is a great product, an absolute must for those who want to run a Mac OS X server on a limited internet pipe. But if you don't like spending a day or more troubleshooting the program to try and get it to work this isn't for you...this wouldn't have been a problem if the support actually existed. There is NO support, I emailed them during business hours and got no reply. When I paid for the pro version of throttled I didn't even get my serial # until I did a whois on their domain and called them...if you rely on support then you may find it worth your time to avoid this product and all products this company makes as there is NO SUPPORT! But other then that this product is great, just takes some time getting used to how it works. TIP: If you have something like a FTP server which consumes a huge amount of ports like I did and which results in the throttled port being in use you will not be able to use the gui. Instead you will have to download the command prompt version, create the ipfw rules yourself and then start the throttled process yourself. It's not that hard if you don't mind reading the documentation and startup script for info on how to do both... But again there is no support and since they seem to promise support this is a big no no to me...is anyone there?!

Besides the related problem with audio/video chatting with iChat (not 100% sure as I didn't test it again after uninstalling Throttled) , I could not start the OS X built-in firewall.

Since OSX does not allow QoS via kernel i.e. mark packages and priorise & queue them, this is the way to go. Of course, it is mostly a matter of settings... Lately, I switched to a self compiled linux gateway with fully qos and it's unbeaten so far, i.e. skyping while upload is totally full is possible.

I would love it if this program worked better, it would be great for P2P. However I have found it makes it impossible to make voice chats in iChat. I have been trying repeatedly with another mac user on broadband. Everything else was setup correctly, (UPnP, port forwarding etc) but it always failed saying insufficient bandwidth. As soon as I removed throttled it worked fine. Will