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Setting up proxy or something..?

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Darein

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I have a little questions for you guru's out there. My friend who goes to a school here (in Seattle) is bumming because according to him the school limits his downloads based on port numbers. He is only able to download a few kbytes a second when he should be able to get much more. One thing that he wanted me to do is to run a proxy (or just NAT?) on my comp to get around his limitation. Now I am wondering if this will chew through my bandwidth (Im on a nice broadband) and/or take too many resources from my computer. Any ideas?
 
Not only would he be using SOME of your bandwidth, he'd actually be using double what you would expect - AFter all, he has to send a request to your proxy, the proxy downloads what he wants, then sends it to him. Data comes into and then out of your network.

Keep in mind that all network traffic is two ways - You send a request and then get a response. If you've got a bandwidth upload cap (IE, @home has a 128Kb/s cap) allowing him to do this could tie up your upload banwidth and have a big hit on your computing.

That being said, you might be able to find a proxy that would allow you to limit his speed to a certain amount. On @home, I'd give someone something like 80Kb/s. That shouldn't affect your daily computing use unless you do a lot of uploads or run Edonkey/Direct Connect / Morpheus a lot.

- G
 
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