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From: Steven <steven@trance.org>
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Subject: Fair bandwidth division
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:14:14 +0100
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Hi,

I have a freebsd 4.1 machine running as a natd router for my home network.
In recent weeks my housemates have started using the file sharing program
kazaa, which downloads its files from several sources at once in an attempt
to saturate as much bandwidth as possible.

This is a bit of a problem, as I have have found when one person is making a
download with it and using maybe 65k/sec, others in the house (namely me)
get a top speed of maybe 0.5k/sec (from sites which can easily shift at a
much higher speeds). 

I do not wish to divide up the bandwidth on a permenant
basis - it makes no sense as a lot of the time there may only be one person
using the net connection. I would however like to find a way to dynamically
divide the bandwidth "fairly", so that one computer cannot hog all the
bandwidth when others are trying to use the connection too.

Is there a way of doing this? I've done a few searches but cannot see
anything obvious.

Thanks

Steven

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