Monitoring & managing network traffic

Hello

I have a home network with 2 PCs with a wired connection via a Netgear DG834
router/modem
and a laptop connected via a Netgear wireless access point.

What I require is a means whereby I can monitor and allocate my broadband
bandwidth individually to each PC as necessary.
The laptop in particular needs to transfer large files on occasion to my
work-based server and I need to do this as efficiently as
possible. I guess what I need is a means to prioritise bandwidth on the
laptop on an ad hoc basis.

Can anyone help with this - for instance can this be done through Windows
(XP Pro) or do I need some third party software ?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Conrad

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:07:10 -0000, "Conrad"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hello
>
>I have a home network with 2 PCs with a wired connection via a Netgear DG834
>router/modem
>and a laptop connected via a Netgear wireless access point.
>
>What I require is a means whereby I can monitor and allocate my broadband
>bandwidth individually to each PC as necessary.
>The laptop in particular needs to transfer large files on occasion to my
>work-based server and I need to do this as efficiently as
>possible. I guess what I need is a means to prioritise bandwidth on the
>laptop on an ad hoc basis.
>
>Can anyone help with this - for instance can this be done through Windows
>(XP Pro) or do I need some third party software ?
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
>Conrad
>

Thanks... I needed a good laugh! You've got 2 PCs and a laptop in your
home and you can't get the PCs to give you any bandwidth? Who pays the
bills??

-- Zadok
('¿')

Conrad wrote:

> The laptop in particular needs to transfer large files on occasion to my
> work-based server and I need to do this as efficiently as
> possible. I guess what I need is a means to prioritise bandwidth on the
> laptop on an ad hoc basis.

If you need to transfer large files it would probably be better to
connect the laptop by wire rather than wifi as a wired connection is
much more efficient.

Also, on a home network if you want the laptop to have priority for
bandwidth I would think the best way would be to stop using the desktop
PC swhilst transfer in progress.

Geoff Lane

Conrad wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a home network with 2 PCs with a wired connection via a Netgear DG834
> router/modem
> and a laptop connected via a Netgear wireless access point.
>
> What I require is a means whereby I can monitor and allocate my broadband
> bandwidth individually to each PC as necessary.
> The laptop in particular needs to transfer large files on occasion to my
> work-based server and I need to do this as efficiently as
> possible. I guess what I need is a means to prioritise bandwidth on the
> laptop on an ad hoc basis.
>
> Can anyone help with this - for instance can this be done through Windows
> (XP Pro) or do I need some third party software ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Conrad
>
>
>
With the Netgear router I don't believe you can limit the bandwidth for
the connected clients. With the Draytek Vigor 2600G I have been using
until recently you CAN. So if you really feel you need to do this, you
may want to look at buyintg a different router. However, I'm not
convinced from the description that you *really* need to go to this
level of complexity... I mean, have you actually experienced a problem
yet with the amount of time it takes to transfer the files from the
laptop to the server?

Conrad wrote:
> Hello

> I have a home network with 2 PCs with a wired connection via a Netgear DG834
> router/modem
> and a laptop connected via a Netgear wireless access point.

> What I require is a means whereby I can monitor and allocate my broadband
> bandwidth individually to each PC as necessary.
> The laptop in particular needs to transfer large files on occasion to my
> work-based server and I need to do this as efficiently as
> possible. I guess what I need is a means to prioritise bandwidth on the
> laptop on an ad hoc basis.

> Can anyone help with this - for instance can this be done through Windows
> (XP Pro) or do I need some third party software ?


I don't think it's worth it personally, but these items showed up in Google:

http://tinyurl.com/2pmflf

With only 2 computers, you should have more than enough bandwidth that
you shouldn't need bandwidth controlling tools. Remember that there's
actually more bandwidth behind your LAN than there is going to the
Internet, usually 20 to 100 times more bandwidth! A router simply gives
equal round-robin priority to each computer in the LAN. If one computer
is busier than the other, then it will gain more of the bandwidth
automatically. If they're equally busy, then the Internet will be shared
equally 50:50.

Yousuf Khan