Hello, I have a Cyber where a 256kbps Internet connection (broadband) is shared between 5 computers. As long as people go for Normal browsing there is no problem regarding the sharing speed. But off late there are some customers who download heavily like say, videos/audio etc. So, the problem is,during that time the other computers are experiencing slow browsing...i.e it takes more than a minute to open websites like yahoo,rediff etc.Now how do I make sure that even the other computers get a good share of speed when someone is downloading heavily? ( OS : Win 98 ; We have Router )

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Google for "bandwidth limiters" and you will get hits on utilities that can do it. 
 For Win 9X though you may be out of luck.  Most if not all require W2K, XP or higher. 
 Your only other alternative is expensive hardware that would have to replace your 
current router, and would have to be administered.  Current consumer equipment is 
not capable of limiting bandwidth to a local LAN that I am aware of.  Maybe in the 
future they will build that capablility into the routers.

Other than that, you would have to install a server environment with server software, 
either pay for MS software, or free with Linux then build a domain and I don't think 
you want to do that.  It gets very complicated with a steep learning curve and a 
lot of time to do it, as well as additional hardware/computer(s).







On Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 7:41 am, Sudhindra wrote:

>Hello,

>I have a Cyber where a 256kbps Internet connection (broadband) is shared between 

>5 computers. As long as people go for Normal browsing there is no problem regarding 

>the sharing speed. But off late there are some customers who download heavily like 

>say, videos/audio etc. So, the problem is,during that time the other computers are 

>experiencing slow browsing...i.e it takes more than a minute to open websites like 

>yahoo,rediff etc.Now how do I make sure that even the other computers get a good 

>share of speed when someone is downloading heavily?  ( OS : Win 98  ; We have Router 

>) 

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Sudhindra wrote:
|I have a Cyber
|
I assume you mean *a cyber cafe*.
Your local shorthand is NOT universally understood.

|where a 256kbps Internet connection (broadband) is shared between 5 computers.
|
{pedantic}*AMONG* 5 computers{/pedantic}

|[...]there are some customers who download heavily[...]
|So[...]other computers are experiencing slow browsing
|
http://www.livecdlist.com/?pick=All&showonly=server
http://www.google.com/search?q=How.to.set-up.a.Linux.server

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