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limiting internet connection speed?

Aug 2, 2005 3:24PM PDT

I only have a dial-up connection and I am sharing it with my 2 networked pc at home. Sometimes my brother is downloading at one pc and I'm surfing at the other one, so most of the connections are going to my brother's pc who's downloading. My question is, is there a program that can control and distribute the internet connections equally with each computer? For example, If I have 56kbps speed , divide it by 2 that's 28kbps. So even if the other pc want more connections for downloading, it will only get 28kbps, and the other pc also get 28kbps even if it does'nt need that much connections.

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Believe it or not.
Aug 2, 2005 10:41PM PDT

ICS already does this. What most people don't like is the LAG time that is more than doubled and it feels like you are not getting your fair share. But if you both were to download from the same place, you would find it shared nearly equally.

Bob

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setting how much connections?
Aug 3, 2005 8:31PM PDT

Is there anything that I can do or install that could set how much speed that can a computer get? So when I set it for example to 10Kbps eventhough how much speed I get the connection that will flow to my pc is only 10Kbps!

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IP SHAPING.
Aug 3, 2005 9:44PM PDT

Linux does this. All other solutions cost money and after 5 years, no one here has paid for the software so I never mention it.

However, linux does this so you put a linux box in the mix and use it's IP SHAPING features to do this.

After it's all said and done, you find your efforts are not paying off. The lag is just as bad.

Bob

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What about NETPEEKER?
Aug 4, 2005 1:28AM PDT

Somebody told me NetPeeker could do it, have you reviewed this?

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Not this specifically.
Aug 4, 2005 3:34AM PDT

But I share that I've yet to find that bandwidth limits are enough to cut down lag which is the real complaint for gamers and such. Most of these increase lag, but assure shared bandwidth. The area is quite interesting but I've learned that with 2 users on ICS, it's pretty much as good as it gets.

Bob