Limiting bandwidth used

[Kjell Rune Skaaraas <kjella79@yahoo.no>]

Hi

I'm sharing an ADSL connection with my landlord, and
need my Debian box (running etch) to cap the bandwidth
use (just its own use, it's not acting as a router).

Is there any way to do this that doesn't involve
setting up a massively complex traffic shaper, tons of
iptables rules etc etc.? I'm used to doing this with
netlimiter on Windows and the only solutions for linux
when I've searched for it I go "What the f...?" over.
All I want is to be able to say "Use max 1500kb/s down
and 150kb/s up on anything outside 10.0.0.*". I really
don't see how that can be so difficult.

Regards,
Kjell Rune Skaaraas