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[sobrique]

Well, they replied quick.
But it seems nope, you can't stop Steam from sucking your internet connection dry.
How irritating.



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Comments

[darkgodfred.livejournal.com]

Override your routing to the Steam Servers, proxy through the linux box and get that to implement QoS to throttle traffic based on port.

Of course, this is somewhat overkill.

[linamishima.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's a surprisingly good idea, well suggested sir! :D

Another plus point to building a linux router/server system

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Router QoS is something I had considered, and not just for steam. however I still think any "download clien6" should have that sort of thing built in.