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Guest · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: bandwidth distribution

I am using Wingate for sharing my home internet connection. Wingate is
installed in Win2000 and 3 XPs are sharing the connection. My internet
speed is 256Kbps/64Kbps. When one of the computers uses P2P software,
the bandwidth is noticeably reduced and websites take ages to download
and even fail to load sometimes. I would like to know if the bandwidth
can be equally distributed among the 4 computers. If one or more
computers are not using internet, I would like to have the unused
bandwidth be added to the quota of other computers. Is it possible to
achieve this? Can Wingate do it or do I need other networking
softwares?

I would also like to know if it is possible for the client computers to
"grab" the bandwidth from the Wingate computer. That might be called
bandwidth stealing but since it is a home network, it is ok with us.

Need some help. Thanks!
Ben

Jeff B · Guest

Win/* ICS will always impact the bandwidth due to the pass-thru nature
of the connection.

You'r better off with a router and having all systems connected directly
to it. With only a capacity of 256k/64k, the p2p will almost certainly
clobber the net until it quiesces. You might try a switch like this
modem -->router-->switch-->all other machines.
The switch will give better bandwidth management under heavy loads, but
the 256k/64k upper limit will be the determining factor.

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