network: share bandwidth?

[fo3nix]

I have a wireless network, with two computers connected. Anyone know of a way of getting the two computers to properly split the bandwidth of the connection equally.. or even unequally for certain times?

I share with someone else who insists on downloading at the most annoying times, so while we have a 2Mb connection, I often don't get bandwidth much better than a 256k connection.

[kempie]

Take a look at this.

[fo3nix]

thats pretty good; certainly one solution. but it requires setting up a proxy, and thus the other parties can only access the internet when my PC is on, right? I can't do that in my situation.

any way of doing it from the router itself? (it's a belkin)

[fo3nix]

hmm, upon further inspection there doesn't really seem to be a way without a proxy (unless you have a more expensive router that has bandwidth allocation).

http://ask-leo.com/can_i_monitor_or_control_the_bandwidt h_used_on_my_home_network.html
pretty interesting.

guess i'll just go back to changing the SSID when I need a lot of bandwidth! ;)

[kempie]

Do you have access to the other computer?

Would it work if you setup the proxy server on that one so that whenever it is on the bandwidth is shared, but when it is off you can have sole access by changing your proxy settings?

[Aquariel]

Alternatively, you may be able to use a program such as NetLimiter, which will let you specifiy how much up/down bandwidth is used, and set it to half on both PCs.

[fo3nix]

those are both great ideas, thanks!

hadn't thought about that scenario kempie. far from ideal to be honest, but certainly a solution.