Based on our record, Radio Silence should be more popular than NetBalancer. It has been mentiond 12 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Agreed, though I combine using Little Snitch with Radio Silence: https://radiosilenceapp.com Little Snitch is great for when I want hyper granular control of a specific app's network permissions while Radio Silence gives me a super quick way to just block EVERYTHING for a particular app right away without even opening it the first time. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
I'm using radio silence for years and it is awesome :) https://radiosilenceapp.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Forgot to mention Radio Silence (commercial), seen by many as an easier introduction vs Little Snitch. Source: over 1 year ago
Sorry for the late reply. I use Lulu which should be enough, but I also simultaneously use Radio Silence to be safe. Source: almost 2 years ago
Little Snitch (LS) is considered by many to be the gold standard. The aforementioned Lulu has a good reputation. The app Hands Off! Appears to be no longer developed (site offline). Then there's Radio Silence that may well fit your needs. Finally, one or more apps by Murus may be of interest but AFAIK these are not easy to configure and may be overkill for the average Mac user. I'm not familiar with TripMode. Source: about 2 years ago
On windows I have installed a program called NetBalancer. The paid version allows you to limit bandwidth usage of any application. With the free version all you can do is monitor, but I found it very useful. I could at least know why sometimes my internet was slow, most of the time was because windows was updating, or another application. Source: almost 3 years ago
I am going to be playing around with a couple different tools such as Net Balancer that I found and see which one is the easiest to use. This way Ill be able to stay connected 100% of the time and not have to disable my Dogecoin Core network to upload a large file of my own. Source: almost 3 years ago
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