How to slow an ethernet connection ?

Here's a good one.

We have a peer-to-peer network here with no server. One employee spends way
too much time browsing the internet and management won't say anything to
him. how can I slow down his browsing significantly but still let his
needed company emails to go through ?

I was thinking of wrapping his ethernet cable through a toroid core. )

Thanks.

Nothing you can do locally, remember that LAN speeds are usually 10-100
times faster than WAN/internet speeds. A proxy server (or local proxy app)
could slow him down. All he would have to do is disable, but maybe he ins't
that smart???

"Jennifer W" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Here's a good one.
>
> We have a peer-to-peer network here with no server. One employee spends
> way too much time browsing the internet and management won't say anything
> to him. how can I slow down his browsing significantly but still let his
> needed company emails to go through ?
>
> I was thinking of wrapping his ethernet cable through a toroid core. )
>
> Thanks.
>
>

You can't.
And you are waisting you own time as bad as he is by even trying if
management doesn't back you up. This type of stuff is up to managment which
runs the compnay, not the IT people who don't run the company :-)
The proper response from you would be to convince management that it
actually causes a problem. If they agree and decide they want you to do
this, then they have to put their money where their mouth is and buy the
products to do this. Even then I don't believe anything (that actually
works) exist to slow him down. Most the products will only block or allow
chosen sites,...so you would have to block the sites he waistes all his time
on.

This is actually a "human" problem and not a technical problem,..so the
solution is also a "human" solution and not a technical one.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Jennifer W" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Here's a good one.
>
> We have a peer-to-peer network here with no server. One employee spends
> way too much time browsing the internet and management won't say anything
> to him. how can I slow down his browsing significantly but still let his
> needed company emails to go through ?
>
> I was thinking of wrapping his ethernet cable through a toroid core. )
>
> Thanks.
>
>

here are a couple of suggestions;

1# look at his internet history and then populate his hosts file with
entries like
127.0.0.1 MySpace.com in other words direct web pages to the bit bucket.

2# convince management that you need bandwidth and run internet thru a
proxy/bandwidth control server.

3# install a sonicwall router and use ViewPoint from sonicwall to document
time spent and sites visited. Armed with this documentation would inform
management of how much company time is wasted.

set his switch port to half duplex and 10mb :-)

"Joshua Bolton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> set his switch port to half duplex and 10mb :-)

That's cool in some situations,...but it is still about 7 times faster than
a T1 so it isn't going to slow down his browsing speed which is already only
as fast as whatever the Internet Line speed is.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

Try a product called CCProxy...

"Jennifer W" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Here's a good one.
>
> We have a peer-to-peer network here with no server. One employee spends
> way too much time browsing the internet and management won't say anything
> to him. how can I slow down his browsing significantly but still let his
> needed company emails to go through ?
>
> I was thinking of wrapping his ethernet cable through a toroid core. )
>
> Thanks.
>
>

Ok thanks for the ideas. I'll see what I can do.
JW


"Jennifer W" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Here's a good one.
>
> We have a peer-to-peer network here with no server. One employee spends
> way too much time browsing the internet and management won't say anything
> to him. how can I slow down his browsing significantly but still let his
> needed company emails to go through ?
>
> I was thinking of wrapping his ethernet cable through a toroid core. )
>
> Thanks.
>
>

"Jennifer W" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Here's a good one.
>
> We have a peer-to-peer network here with no server. One employee spends way
> too much time browsing the internet and management won't say anything to him.
> how can I slow down his browsing significantly but still let his needed
> company emails to go through ?
>
> I was thinking of wrapping his ethernet cable through a toroid core. )

If your concern is that he's eating up too much shared bandwidth, then a QoS
device can help. For example, a router capable of running DD-WRT.

If your concern is that he's spending too much time surfing the net instead of
working, well, that's a management issue for sure. Probably not in your best
interest to take action when management won't.