This sounds simple, and I am told it is possible. But barring products for T3 WANS's I cannot find the answer. In the very near future I am having Cable Broadband installed (at 600K). Now, what I would like to do, from the Cable Router and Switch (Combined Unit if possible) is to set static IP's and then be able to set maximum bandwiths for each (preferably with rules) i.e. 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.11 192.168.0.13 on MAX off NONE off NONE on 536 on 64 off NONE on 472 on 64 on 64 As you can see, I want one comp to have maximum connection possible, but at the same time, the other 2 comps, who only need dial up, not to be bogged out if I'm doing anything heavy. if I have to set it perma 472/64/64 I will. Now the big thing is, does anyone know of any Cable or xDSL/Cable router that will be able to do this. As I do not want to have a machine on 24/7 doing the same job. (the cheaper the better, this is only for a small home network)

My company is looking at sharing out our T3 connection to a neighboring business and we also were looking for something similar, though it may very well be software. I really don't see any reason to have one, though for a personal network. If you are doing some very, very intensive internet usage, the other pcs may notice some lag, but any more if you are running a 100 megabit ethernet network and have a newer router/switch, you should be just fine.

Interesting. You're talking about traffic-shaping.. sometimes referred to as QOS. to Tbe honest, I don't think you're going to find many cheap DSL routers that support this feature. A fairly simplistic approach to traffic-shaping may include defining queues for data traffic and prioritising that traffic through the router's buffers. I only know that Cisco routers support this feature, so I can't speak for non-Cisco routers. I'd put the question to your router's suppliers to see if they support traffic-shaping.