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by longennamer

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My company hosts its own webserver (IIS4) on the same Internet connection as used to by employees to access internet (MS Proxy). Is there a way to limit the amount of bandwidth that employees can use, so that our website is never slowed down by large downloads by employees?

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by duwaned

Hi.

The best way to do this is on a hardware level. The only one I have had the pleasure of installing is a PacketShaper. It allows you to prioritize certain types of traffic on a link, which sounds like what you are wanting to do.

Have a lookat the following address:

http://www.packeteer.com/products/packetshaper/index.cfm

Remove any spaces or %20 statements appearing in the above URL.

I hope this helps.
Regards.
Duwane

by joseph moore

Depends on your network backbone. An intelligent switch can do this; you can set user workstation ports to 10Mbps, and the web server port to 100 Mbps. Or set up a VLAN on the switch and limit the speeds it runs on for the users, and a separate VLANfor the web server with no limits.
Putting the user workstation on their own segment (10.1.2.x) and putting the web server on a different one (10.1.1.x) will also keeps things separated.
There are a lot of different ways to do this. It just depends on how much work you want to do.

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