# magnific0/wondershaper

Command-line utility for limiting an adapter's bandwidth

Repository: https://github.com/magnific0/wondershaper
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wondershaper
Language: Shell
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2024-07-25T02:46:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5104, "days_push": 769, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1897, forks 277 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:51.062517+00:00)

## What it is
Wonder Shaper is a shell script that limits the bandwidth of one or more network adapters using iproute's tc command with a simplified command-line interface. It supports limiting upload, download, or both, using HTB queuing for better management on high-speed links.

## Use cases
- limit bandwidth of a network interface
- throttle upload and download speeds on linux
- simulate slow network connections for testing
- cap wifi adapter bandwidth
- prevent one machine from saturating the network

## When to choose
- you need a simple CLI to shape traffic on a Linux adapter without learning tc
- you want to limit only upload or only download speed
- you need a lightweight script with no dependencies beyond iproute2

## When to avoid
- you need per-application or per-user traffic shaping rather than per-interface
- you are on Windows or macOS
- you need advanced QoS features like priority queues or class-based filtering

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: networking, cli
- domain: networking, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: bandwidth-limiting, traffic-shaping, tc, qos, shell-script, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- magnific0/wondershaper (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.062517+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:12:48.573545+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/magnific0/wondershaper (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.062517+00:00, sha 0d8d5ad842ab)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.