YTS Control as an alternative to SelfishNet, NetCut and EvilLimiter
If you’ve searched for SelfishNet, NetCut or EvilLimiter, you’re looking for a way to see and control devices on a local network. YTS Control does that job on Windows and Linux, with a live per-device view and independent limits. This page compares honestly — only on things YTS Control actually does.
Not affiliated
SelfishNet, NetCut and EvilLimiter are separate projects and products. They are named here only to describe the category of task YTS Control performs. No affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement is implied in either direction, and their names remain the property of their respective owners.
What YTS Control does — verified
These are capabilities you can check against the rest of this site:
- Discovers devices on your local network and lists them.
- Shows live per-device upload and download rates, plus total traffic.
- Applies independent upload and download speed limits to individual devices.
- Pauses and restores internet access for a single device.
- Shows the destinations devices contact, from DNS, TLS server names and HTTP host headers.
- Includes a Stop & Restore Network control to return the network to normal.
- Runs on Windows and Linux with a graphical interface, and is actively developed.
How the tools differ
People usually choose between these tools on practical grounds — which operating system they’re on, whether they want a graphical interface, and whether the tool is still maintained. Rather than make claims about how the other tools behave on your setup, here is where YTS Control stands, so you can compare it against your own experience:
- Platform: YTS Control targets Windows and Linux with a graphical interface. SelfishNet and NetCut are Windows tools; EvilLimiter is a Linux command-line tool. The right fit depends on the machine you’ll run it from.
- Per-device view: YTS Control is built around a live list of devices with individual rates and controls, rather than a single network-wide number.
- Separate up/down limits: upload and download ceilings are set independently per device.
- Reversibility: a dedicated Stop & Restore Network step is part of the workflow — see the Stop & Restore Network guide.
- Requirements: on Windows it uses the separate Npcap driver and needs administrator rights — much like other tools in this category that capture and shape local traffic.
YTS Control is not presented as universally better than these tools. It’s a different, maintained option, and which one suits you depends on your platform and what you need.
The same honest limitations apply
No local-network tool escapes the physics of the network. YTS Control, like the others, is affected by client isolation on guest Wi-Fi, dynamic ARP inspection, devices behind a second router or NAT, and some Wi-Fi drivers; it controls IPv4 rather than IPv6. And it can show which destinations a device contacts, but it cannot see inside encrypted connections — not pages, searches, messages or passwords — a limit VPNs and modern privacy features push further still. The homepage’s compatibility section spells these out.
Where to go next
If a specific task brought you here, the use-case pages are the most direct: limiting bandwidth per device, pausing one device, or controlling devices without a router login. For how the product is licensed, see the licensing page.