[clue-tech] bandwidth issues

[Roy J. Tellason]

I have most of what's on the LAN here (3 machines at the moment and the 
firewall/router,  a 486 box running linux) playing well together.  But!

One family member,  running XP,  I think (some version of windoze anyhow) is 
hogging bandwidth here.  "Downloading a movie" I'm told.  It's at the point 
where it's starting to seriously interfere with other LAN traffic,  like 
crashing my music,  which only wants 56k of my 768k of available download 
bandwidth.

What options are there to limit the usage on that particular machine?  
Something I can configure in the firewall/router?  Something else?

The other option being that I can pull the plug,  but that's gonna trigger the 
kind of confrontation that I'd rather avoid if at all possible...

Help?


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