Bandwidth Allocation on LAN(p2p)

Carson_Mage

I currently have a wireless network of two computers(mine and my sisters) sharing a broadband connection using ICS, ever since i set it up my sister has been downloading like crazy and it really slows the connection down for me. I was wondering if there was a way of allocating the bandwidth so that i have, let's say 40KBps and my sister has 20 KBps.

btw im on bt yahoo brodband(512 kbps) and im using netgear wireless cards.

Thanks in advance.

Sartan

If you're using XP or 2K, you can configure a large "reservation bandwidth" for her. I'm going to assume theres no way to monitor/manipulate throughput on your ICS server otherwise.

On her computer, go to Start, run, mmc and press OK.
Go to File, Add/Remove Snap-in.
Scroll down until you find the Local Computer Policy.
Press Add, then OK/Close.
On the context tree that appears on the left, expand to Local computer policy, Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Network, QoS Packet Scheduler.
Double-click on Limit reservable bandwidth, and set it to 80%, and enable it.

Afterward, we need to add the QoS packet drivers.
Start, Settings, Control Panel, Network Connections.
Right-click on the NIC in her computer that connects to your LAN, and press properties.
Click on the Networking tab, and press "Install".
Add the QoS packet scheduler as a protocol, and verify that there is a checkmark after it.
Then, reboot her computer.

Hopefully, this will limit her bandwidth.

However, I'm not too sure if it will, because it could be 80% of a 100Mbit connection that's reserved for "priority traffic".

If that doesn't work, try http://bandwidthcontroller.com/

(Note: Windows XP SP1 removed RSVP for 802.1p, but only by default. QoS traffic shaping can still work in a client/server environment afaik)

Carson_Mage

Thnaks i will certainly give that badnwidth controller a try

mynameisboring

I looked at the help for the "Limit reservable bandwidth", and

By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default

It ain't gonna work dis way. You are changing the value from 20 to 80...