Hi. I am sharing a 56k dial-up internet connection between 2 pc's on a 100Mbps LAN. I am just using the standard win2k "enable internet connection sharing" option to share the net. Is there any way to only allow the other computer a maximum bandwith of say 2kbps or similar? Further, is there anyway to give a bandwitdh cap to applications running locally? eg make internet explorer only use 2kbps at most. any information or suggested software would be greatly appreciated!

No. Not with ICS. It is a server, and it will give maximum throughput to its clients (the other machine). However, the link still works on a first in first out queue on both ends of the phone link. So if there is a large packet or block of packets waiting at the ISP to be sent down to one machine, and something comes in for the other one, it has to wait in line until the first is finished. Nothing you can do about it at your end. The link runs at one speed and transmits one packet of data for one machine at at time, like trucks going down a highway. There is no provision in normal TCP/IP for "sharing" a packet (the bandwidth) between different machines on the Internet.