limiting client bandwidth

rebelwarlock · Oct 20, 2005

the high school i'm working for has a satelite internet link, so we can get fairly fast download speeds. i'd like to be able to limit this speed on some of the computers so that we don't get too many warez monkeys. the clients are all windows xp and the domain controller is windows 2000 server. is there a way to limit the download speed?

Ramlaen · Oct 20, 2005

look into load balancing under windows 2000 server, i believe you will find your answer there

this should start you off http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/confeat/nlbovw.mspx

rebelwarlock · Oct 20, 2005

wow, that's quite a bit more complicated than i anticipated. thanks for the tip

Ramlaen · Oct 20, 2005

smoothwall has some mods that can do it as well, this might be slightly easier, provided you have an old machine around to play with

eh? · Oct 22, 2005

The cheapest/easiest way would be a proxy.

Do you have any Cisco equipment?

gorilly · Oct 24, 2005

eh? said:
The cheapest/easiest way would be a proxy.

best idea, then you can add a filter and stop the so called 'warez monkeys' looking at 'warez' full stop. get websense or something... but for god sake dont trun proxy avoidance off, the the kids can work that out they deserve to be able to look at what they like.

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