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MikePL
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« on: March 25, 2003, 05:27:00 PM »
I know it is a little bit off topic (not related to LP), but I guess its a place where I will find answer from specialists.

At home I have a small server. This is a PC computer operating on Win2k. Its purpose is to share one internet connection between various computers. It has also some seti@home and P2P software installed.

Is there a program that enables me to control/assign internet bandwidth to the computers that share the internet connection. For example when computer 1 has some FTP client working (or sume website download software, which uses many threads), the computer 2 and computer 3 users can hardly surf the net, because the computer with the most downloads occupies the bandwidth. Let's say I have 256kbps total bandwidth. I would like to assign 56kbps to the first computer, 100kbps to the second and 100kbps to the third.
Is there such a possibility to control bandwidth usage? Any software? Any scripts or something?
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2003, 09:16:00 PM »
Are you using windows internet connection sharing?

I don't think there is a way really.

You could use different routing software, but I can't think of any that would limit the bandwidth.

I used to use winroute pro, from www.kerio.com

It's really good. I don't think it does what you want, but it's still cool.
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« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2003, 09:39:00 PM »
You can't assign bandwidth, but you can use the Qos Packet Scheduler on the gateway machine.  It's in your Admin Tools, Group Policy Editor, Computer Configuration, Network.  Limit reservable bandwith to a percentage, enable it, and make sure it's applied on the connection you're sharing.
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« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2003, 10:28:00 PM »
Surely that setting just changes the amount of bandwidth reserved for the quality of service information?
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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2003, 10:39:00 PM »
It will reserve bandwidth through the gateway, regardless of the 'client' or user that's using bandwidth, whether that user be someone on the internet viewing a page on your local webserver, or whether it's a network user going out to the internet through the gateway.  Windows XP Pro sets it to 20% as a default!

I had posted some info on that  here.
 
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2003, 07:11:53 PM »
If you want to set the amount of bandwidth the easy way... install win2k server, i have used it with a proxy server and i can change the amount each user can use.  this way i have each computer as a different user and i set them up however i want.  this is great also because i can change their security to reflec what the computer it doing.  (if the computer is only a file server then it doesnt need to have access to the internet, therefore making that one computer a little more secure.)
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2003, 08:30:59 PM »
Mike,

I'm not sure if its in your area of expereince, but you might want to consider a linux routing solution, not only can you get better security, you might find a n increase in speed.. especially if you have just been using ICS to share the connection.

www.freesco.org is one that I am using. It runs beautifullly on a floppy, off an old 486 100% out of the RAM (fast!). It offer features like your looking for. Look for the RShaper addon package (free of course!) .. it allows your to throttle your bandwidth between the users.

www.grc.com shows my server as complete stealth (with the exception of my public webserver).

Good luck!

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« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2003, 03:59:20 AM »
Hi. I used to run 'seti' on my machines at home.. There is a setting in that for limiting bandwidth allocation. The same goes with most of the major P2P packages out there.
That way you can limit the bandwidth available to them when your machine is not busy it gets more.. When the machine IS busy they get less.
I set up "seti" to only run when the screensaver kicked in..
In fact ran it AS my screensaver..
Still meant they got some of my machine time.. When I needed it the least Razz
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