I've been reading the thread, and I thought the original posting was quite
clear, perhaps I misunderstood his question.

Firstly there's no 802.11b network on this planet through putting 11Mb over
the air interface.  Still, whatever the 'real world' throughput there is
often a desire to manage it as opposed to leaving it wide open.

In a commercial environment it is prudent to meter the bandwidth, especially
when you have a finite amount of it, and one kiddie on Kazaa can suck the
life out of it and ruin it for everyone else. Paying customers demand and
expect a certain level of service.

If you aren't a Linux hacker, then there are black boxes that will do it,
they cost a few bucks.  A good example is the YDI bandwidth Control Unit,
they take all the programming out of the equation and give you a nice user
interface.  If Joe only wants to pay for 128k up/downstream then that's all
Joe gets etc. http://www.ydi.com/products/bcu.php

Cheers Nigel

Nigel Ballard
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