You might get a warning about the drivers not being digitally signed, but they are perfectly safe. It does so, because it needs to install some network drivers to enable bandwidth control for all your programs and applications.

When you install Netbalancer, you would notice that as a precaution it automatically creates a Restore Point for your Windows OS. However installation is a bit different from the usual software installs. The download (link below) of Netbalancer is straightforward. With NetBalancer you can monitor internet traffic, set traffic rate limits and even network priorities for all applications. Netbalancer is traffic shaping tool with lots of useful features lets you combine browsing the Internet and downloading huge files without any inconvenience. Many of us would prefer if these download/upload activities go on in the background, using limited bandwidth and would not affect our regular surfing.

This functionality is limited to torrents and if you try to download a file from your browser or transfer files online for backup, many of these applications hog a lot of bandwidth and that results in slow internet speed. This and the ability to download chunks of file at separate times make torrents so popular with internet users for downloading huge files. If you have ever used a Peer-to-peer (p2p) software like Bittorrent, to download files via torrents, you would know that you can control all aspects of file download, especially the download and upload speed limits.

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