Many of the Cisco routers offer ways to do this ("traffic shaping"), but
typically they're found in networks of *hundreds* of PCs (or more), rather
than "several", and configuring this feature is an advanced topic. There
are some third-party appliances which make it easier to configure, but few
of them below $10K.
David Gillett
On 13 Apr 2004 at 1:37, Avi Ben-Nun wrote:
> I have a DSL router connecting several PCs to a single broadband line.
> When one of the PCs is running Kazaa, it 'steals' almost the full
> bandwidth from other PCs. Is there a way to limit the usage of
> bandwidth by specific PCs?All the PCs run Windows 98, 2000 and Windows
> XP.
>
> Thanks!
> Avi-Ben-Nun
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