On Thursday 16 January 2003 23:11, Dennis Myers wrote: > I was downloading the update rpms today and my wife complained about how > slow her surfing was. We share a cable connection through a scratch built > firewall machine running IPcop. Here's the newbie question, what do I need > to do to make the system share equally the moderate bandwidth that we have? > Am I going to have to get a router? Or, is there a handy dandy way to do it > with linux? I've been googling linux and not finding much, probably using > the wrong search terms. Any and all advice is appreciated.
Hmmm, I've got a 512Kb/sec (in real life about 60k/s) cable connection with up to 5 machines connected through a smoothwall firewall. Never really noticed a speeddrop though, if there were more machines downloading simultaneously. I do notice a speeddrop during 'prime time' when there are more people logging on in my neighborhood than the local headend can handle. Maybe you should consider setting up a proxy server if it'll help keep the wife out of your hair=:o) Good luck, HarM
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