Hi. I am staying in a hotel where everyone uses the same connection and there are some idiots who download all day long without limiting the speed and thinking that this might distiurb other people. I am a bit experienced with Unix/Win2K adv. serv. and most of the other OS's, but I am still not sure how to limit the access to other ppl. Also does any1 know any SW witch scans the network to detect users? Also I would appreciate the help to limit network for soem users. Please note that I am an ordinary user on that network so I might need to make a server installation on my PC witch is not a problem at all. Thanks in advance for the help. Windows goes berserk

Please note that I am an ordinary user on that network so I might need to make a server installation on my PC witch is not a problem at all. If you're not the owner of the hotel, an employee of the hotel, or an IT contractor hired by the hotel to work on their network, you're asking for a whackload of trouble if you attempt to do anything to their network. Keep in mind, it's not yours....ergo trying to do anything to it would make you a hacker and well, in todays post 9/11 world, I would not want to get busted for hacking. What you can do is talk to the hotel people. Explain that other guests are abusing their network by (most likely) downloading/uploading illegal files. In so doing, they're hogging up the bandwidth and making it hard for others to use their network legitimately. If they care, they can then do something about it themselves. But as a guest of the hotel, it is NOT up to you to do something about this and attempting to do so will make you into a criminal.

"here are some idiots who download all day long without limiting the speed " How do you know this? Curt's right. For your own good, just leave it alone. Oh, and that's "Which" not "Witch." :) "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown