Bandwidth Prioritizing

[Guest]

Hi folks,

So we've all been there: we're uploading (or downloading) something huge and
our surfing or whatever grinds to a halt. Windows QOS can reserve 20% of the
available bandwidth for high-priority stuff. That's great, but how does it
know what your bandwidth really is? There's a KB article somewhere that chats
about 56K links and when "Windows detects a slow link." Well, here's my
problem: I've got a 1.7Mbps(down)/640kbps(up) ADSL modem connection through a
100Mbps local link. Windows can't possibly know that my "dialup" connection
(as it is configured) is 1.7/640. It, I'm sure, can only guess it is 100Mbps
as that's what it tells me when it "connects." Is there any way to explicity
tell windows that the link is actually 1.7/640? On a larger point, does it
really matter if I do that? Is something like IE really properly QOS-enabled?
On a larger question still, does anyone know of some type of software that
allows one to dynamically prioritize bandwidth? Netlimiter provides STATIC
throtting - that's not good enough. An application called "netpeeker" does
one better by allowing percentage throttling. I'd like to have something that
considers my big sftp up/download as low priority so that any time my IE
requests are made, they get top priority and whiz right on through.

Any ideas for any of this? I'd like something that does true packet
prioritizing, much like windows does application prioritizing. If nothing
else is using the connection, the low priority stuff gets all the bandwidth
until something high priority comes along.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

C.

 

[Jack]

Hi

Of the Entry Level Routers the D-Link DG-4300 has a forum of prioritizing
through Qos.

Otherwise look into the professional line of Routers (Cisco, Sonic, etc.).

Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Thanks for your response. I also just discovered something that may do the
job. I've installed the demo and am playing with it now. It's called "cFos".
Quite neat!

Thanks,

PB