Hello, I currently share an internet connection with my brother. He often downloads things at a very high kbs making my internet lag like hell (~600-700ms ping). I was wondering if there is a way to reserve a certain amount of bandwidth for me and therefore limit his DL speed. Or else, when he downloads, he takes up the whole bandwidth and my internet lags. Is there a program to monitor networking bandwidth? I mean, a program that will tell me how many computers are connected to my network, and which computer is taking up what proportion (%) of the bandwidth that is available? And also, show me my current connection speed, etc. Thank you for any input you can give me. David

Oh man, I suggest that you both agree to a fair something. The best way might be a soho router with those features built in. Otherwise you would need either a stand alone computer or a pre-made Virtual Appliance to control and monitor network. See things like load balancer , traffic manager and other open sourced apps/os's to include firewalling. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

There is a free called "Interface traffic Indicator" you would need to enable SNMP v1, is what I would use on the router and point this program at.