Easy-to-use bandwidth throttler for Ubuntu

Question

I have a Minecraft server and a file server that I host on the same box. I want to set it up so that if someone is playing Minecraft and I'm pushing or pulling files, that neither application hogs all the bandwidth.

Some additional notes:

• I'm using Ubuntu.
• Simple is better than complex, even if it means slightly less than perfect performance
• Easy is better than hard, but hard is better than nothing.

Answer 1

A quick search gave me MasterShaper, but when I worked at a wireless ISP I used htb.init to shape my traffic. I know that DD-WRT (custom firmware for broadcom wireless routers) has a very good QOS interface (I use it to keep the torrents from slowing everything else).

Take a look at both projects, I know that htb.init config is made via text files and not that complex, but MasterShaper is a newer project and may be even easier with web interface, graphs and an option to use Layer 7 classifiers.