NetLimiter by Locktime Software is a well-known application that can help you monitor your bandwidth usage and limit the traffic in a simple manner. Unfortunately, there is no version of NetLimiter for Mac available for download, but, you can try using other tools to limit your Internet bandwidth. Here are some alternatives to NetLimiter for Mac. How to speed up a Mac in 11 tips. Limit the visuals. Macs are great for visuals. All the same, to tweak a little more performance from your computer, you may want to switch some of those.
Google Drive File Stream allows you to access files from Google’s cloud. It’s pretty easy for a lot of our coworkers to saturate our pipes. So you can configure a maximum download and upload speed in kilobytes per second. To do so write a com.google.drivefs.settings defaults domain into /Library/Preferences/com.google.drivefs.settings and use a key of BandwidthRxKBPS for download and BandwidthTxKBPS for upload (downstream and upstream as they refer to them) as follows:
The isp does not allow speed more than 2.5 Mbps. I m using a 21 Mbps modem. Recently the tower got upgraded and whenever the speed crosses the limit, the internet gets disconnected. The ISP are yet to fix this. – Akash Lodha Jan 5 '15 at 13:30.
defaults write com.google.drivefs.settings BandwidthRxKBPS -int 200
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Bring your music to mobile and tablet, too. Listening on your phone or tablet is free, easy, and fun. Worth mentioning is that, since March 2014, the Speed Download developers, Yazsoft, have closed their doors and no longer offer any support for their projects. Even though you can still download the last Speed Download trial version which runs on Mac OS X El Capitan, you are advised to use.
The following usually works on both Tiger and Leopard:
(First, if yours is an Intel Mac, check that Safari is not running in Rosetta, which is enough to slow it to a crawl.) Adding DNS codes to your Network Settings, should gives good results in terms of speed-up: Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu. Click on TCP/IP and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' enter the following two numbers: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 (An explanation of why that is both safe and a good idea can be read here: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/opendsn-what-is-opendns-why-required-2/2587 / ) Whilst in System Preferences/Network you should also turn off 'IPv6' in your preference pane, as otherwise you may not get the full speed benefit (the DNS resolver will default to making SRV queries). If you want to know what IPv6 is: This is Apple's guidance on iPv6: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8708.html Click on Apply Now and close the window. Restart Safari, and repair permissions. If that didn't do it, then try this as well: Empty Safari's cache (from the Safari menu), then close Safari. Go to Home/Library/Safari and delete the following files: form values download.plist Then go to Home/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.Safari.plist Repair permissions (in Disk Utility). Start up Safari again, and things should have improved. Mac Os X Download Dmg
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