Capping bandwidth of clients on an XP shared dial-up?

[mbt]

is there a way or a program that would allow allocating specific percentage of internet bandwidth among client machines on a network?

i have a Windows XP home server that is connected by dial-up to the internet 24/7, and two clients connected to it (shared dial-up connection). the problem is that sometimes, when one of the machines downloads something from the net, all the bandwidth is consumed and surfing slows to a crawl. i was wondering if it would be possible to allocate say, 33.3% of available bandwidth to each machine, so that one computer doesn't affect the others too much by not sucking up all the bandwidth.

thanks!

 

[Valhalla1]

u have a few, options that I know of.. windows ICS wont do it, but check sygate.com, they have a program that will, the regular home sygate wont i dont think but they have more expensive package for business networks, more features etc. that has bandwidth limititation capabilites.

or you could get a dialup router that supports it, I'm sure Cisco makes many great ones that would do it..

your other option is to setup an old PC running Linux to be the internet sharing machine, but unless u know linux well already it will take u some time and effort to get it all set up

 

[jkoXP]

2000 server does that in RRAS

 

[mbt]

a dial-up router would be a waste of money at this time, and assembling another PC is out of the question.

aside from sygate, what am i left with?