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Way to ration (guarantee/limit bandwith) for particular programs/connections?

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tomcat

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This is an interesting question I hope to get an anwser to. I am using windows 2000 with ICS installed. My dad is working from a millenium machine using MSN Net2phone internet calling service. If I happen to be doing an upload or download where all the available bandwith is used his phone conversations are all static because ICS is not giving him a contant bandwith stream.

I am on a cable connection, and net2phone only has something like a 3k/s upload/download requirment. Basically I just need to either

a) limit how much bandwith certain aplications can use (in particular hotline)
or
b) a better solution would be to set a guaranteed bandwith for an ICS connection, in effect giving it higher priority.

Is there a software solution that can do this? Perhaps inside windows 2000? I am aware that I can limit the bandwith of certain programs such as naptster, ftp servers, however the program in question (hotline) does not have such an option. I am looking for a generic solution.
 
This really doesn't apply, but it might help in further research, Cisco routers use 802.2Q to give bandwidth priority to certain types of traffic, maybe Microsoft has something similar.
 
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