Bandwidth Limiting

[Ton80 0]

I am running a little 3 Node LAN, 2 Workstations running Win98se, and a server running Windows 2000.. I use the server to be Inet Gateway for the other 2 workstations.. here is my question:

 

Is there any way to limit the Internet Bandwidth each workstation is allowed? I am tired of playing Unreal Tournament online, and my roommate starts downloading from Napster and taking all my bandwidth.. And other stuff like that. I cant find anyone that knows how to do this.. please help..

 

Dave

[Bursar 0]

I don't think there is a way you can limit it.

 

What I'd be tempted to do is either unshare your DUN connection (if appropriate), or pull cables out of the hub so that they can't use the net when you're playing.

[MoreLight 0]

What about some kind of network monitoring program? Maybe there is one that will allow you to allocate network bandwidth on individual network adapters.

 

Sort of load balancing to keep the network stable.

[Ton80 0]

Ive looked through MANY different network monitoring applications, havent seen any that can limit the bandwidth.. Ive seen one app that can do it, but it was like $3000... Cant be that hard to do..

[MoreLight 0]

Ton there's another way, but your roomie isn't going to like it. First you have to be the primary computer on the network, and it sounds like you are.

 

If you can't throttle the bandwidth on his NIC, you're going to have to play a little dirty pool. Sounds like you might not mind that anyways, as he is sucking your bandwidth dry and may not care.

 

You are the server, and since you haven't mentioned an external router, you are the router and the DHCP server also. Simply exclude his IP address from the DHCP scope or block his IP address from accessing the router whenever you need to shut down the Napster stuff. Or change his hardware profile to have the NIC enabled and put the profile selection time on bootup to zero seconds. Change his user.dat file to user.man and he won't be able to make any changes to his profile.

 

Get him a modem for his computer and set him up with a free (really) internet account with http://www.seniorsinfree.com

 

Use a proxy server like Winproxy and disable the ports that he uses to access Napster or any high bandwidth ports like FTP.

 

Put a 10 meg pos NIC in his computer when he's out and set it to half/duplex. Change his protocols so you disable TCP/IP and only enable NetBios, so he can communicate with the workgroup, but can't access the outside world because that protocol is not routable.

 

That should give you a few ideas to work with I guess. 8)

[MoreLight 0]

That's twice today. I must be getting senile.

 

The part about the hardware profile for the NIC is supposed to be "disabled" not enabled.

[Ton80 0]

Cmon fellas.. I dont wanna knock him off totally.. just limit him to 30k for something.. I have a computer running windows 2000 as the server.. and all 3 pcs are hooked to a hub.. the dsl goes to the server..