With DSL broadband shared among 3 PCs, is there shareware to prioritize bandwidth?

[abc]

With three PCs in a home network all sharing 1 DSL line via a SMC broadband router, is there some kind of software utility allowing me to choose which PC gets the bulk of the bandwidth at any given time?

THanks.

 

[gaidin123]

Nope...

Unfortunately there isn't though a full featured app that could easily do that for home networks. If there was, it would be a really killer app imho. Linux can do it with the iproute2 tools but the configuration isn't pretty and all of the queueing disciplines require a good bit of reading to fully understand what you're doing to your traffic. *BSD can do it as well but I belive the Linux tools are much more configurable.

Other than that the Linksys 8 port cable/DSL router has some type of Quality of Service (QoS) feature to prioritize traffic to the first 4 ports.

Other than that you don't really have any options that I'm aware of. Most traffic shaping hardware is tremendously expensive (and works *very* well for large organizations or colleges).

Gaidin

 

[abc]

aw man, i was afraid of that... thanks for the 411...

 

[ALstonLoong]

abc ....

May i know how did you connect your ADSL to router ? Is yours a dialup ADSL ?