Propel PBM (Personal Bandwidth Manager) is a software that promises to monitor your use of Internet traffic and give network priority to VOIP and video conferencing above other bandwidth intensive applications.

One of the reasons for poor quality VOIP or video calls is that your computer may be in the midst or sending or receiving a large file and eating up all the Internet bandwidth when all of a sudden a call comes in.

There are any number of applications including automatic Windows or Adobe Acrobat updates that can eat up the bandwidth that you would rather have being used for your VOIP or videoconference application.

Propel has just introduced a PC application that runs as a background service that monitors your computer’s use of bandwidth and manages it automatically.

The network activity is tracked by the PBM Traffic Monitor will protect your Skype traffic while letting other applications through, but at a lower priority and bandwidth usage.

This is a new approach to QOS (Quality of Service) which is usually controlled at a network point outside of the PC. Propel PBM is targeted to non-technical users and requires no configuration or set-up.

The Propel PBM software is currently being offered at a special introductory price of $19.95.

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