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[nyekobug]

Okay, I asked the IT guys at my company and they're totally useless . I'm wondering if anyone out here has used any form of bandwidth management software. I have a system on which I have other services (http,ftp mainly) running and I'd like to have those have higher priority over bittorrent.

Ideally, when I'm running and there are no clients downloading from my http/ftp server then I want bittorrent to have 100% of my outgoing bandwidth. Whenever someone pops on to get something via HTTP, I'd like to say, set bittorrent to 25% of the bandwidth, and give 75% of it over to the HTTP server. Or have a simple way of telling the overall computer that it can have say, 75% of my outgoing/incoming bandwidth, allowing for other systems on the network to have guaranteed bandwidth (read: PS2 online!) for their own usage.

I know there's all this stuff about QoS controls built into the network settings, but I don't know how to get access to control that stuff . I'm more of an embedded software engineer, not a microsoft programmer ^__^

Any suggestions?

-nyekobug

[agb]

Hmmm.. I thought QOS support is the domain of switches and routers. For that you need network engineers. On linux, if you use it for a NAT device, you can probably get protocol prioritization. But I'm not aware of anything on Windows. The easiest thing is to get a router that supports QOS.