Are there simpler ways to do traffic shaping in linux besides tc?
us trickle. sample cmdline:
trickle -d 10 wget http://noc.gts.pl/50mb.gts
you can repalce wget with any other command. and btw - wget has built in bandwidth limiting option: --limit-rate=amount - so it does not require any external tools to slow it down.
Wget has built in bandwidth control with the --limit-rate option. Shorewall also offers a nicer interface to traffic shaping, as does wondershaper.