Throttled Pro for Mac

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• DANGEROUS: Throttled Turns OFF MOSX Firewall

  zunipusSeptember 12, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Note folks. Throttles 0.5 is still beta software. I am pleased that a GUI was created for it that provides ease of use for those who hate CLIs even more than I do. However, the heart of this program remains Throttled, not the GUI. I have no complaints at all about the GUI and gladly give it five stars: ***** But Throttled itself only gets one star from me. Usually I would not give a star rating to a beta program, but this is an exception. I don't believe anyone should be using Throttled if what I discovered is a universal problem. BAD STUFF: Throttled turns OFF the Mac OS X Firewall. My testing is only in 10.4.11. I will be further testing in Leopard. Why it does this is beyond my comprehension. The fact that it does this is DANGEROUS. No way am I using Throttled again until this nasty blunder is solved. It comes down to this: The possibility of my Mac being invaded and compromised is not worth minor speedups in Internet access. Conclusion: Watch this software for a solution to the Firewall blunder. Meanwhile: DO NOT USE Throttled. Caveat: Someone please find a workaround for this dangerous problem or prove to me that it is harmless. I'd like to champion this program.

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• ThrottleDown Pro

  wantJune 25, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />OK, I've tried this thing on and off for years and after extensive testing with different configurations I have finally reached a definitive conclusion: it doesn't do anything, and in fact can be demonstrated to actually slow down connections. Don't waste your time or money.

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• Superb Product, Superb Support =)

  Dj AdjustFebruary 17, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />If you are are going to downlaod and install this application and have any questions you should contact the support staff.

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• works well for me

  c0micsh0pJanuary 2, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Excellent product. Easy setup. Works as advertised. Recommended

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• This thing rocks

  Edwin-December 28, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />your bandwidth! If you have a need for smoothing out your bandwidth (and who doesn't?) then this is the app you want riding herd over your connection.

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• throttled tools DO work on 10.4.3

  Marty.SkinnerDecember 26, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I too had some initial issues and questions about throttled (and Throttled Pro) on my Tiger system. But after doing some tests, examining the results and then sending an e-mail to the developer got everything working just fine. The bottomline of why this product initially had trouble with my Tiger installation is that I already had several firewall rules in place. Throttled really doesn't know how best to automatically place its own rules within this context. For some it might work right away... for others the new firewall rules added may have no impact at all. If you seem to find this product not "working", please examine your own firewall setups and try to place throttled's rules *before* other firewall rules that take effect even before the new ones get a chance. For me, I had to change my rule number to 00005 *and* delete a "check-state" from rule 00001, moving it to 00006. Throttled rules are now working for me. The developer was very responsive to my e-mailed questions and suggestions for improvement. I couldn't ask for anything more. /Marty

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