How to limit other LANs computers' internet connection sharing bandwidth?

[Bail_Organa]

Hi,

Up until yesterday I had a small (how smaller can you get?!? One?!? ;) ) home network consisted of 2 computers. Both of them are running XP and one of them is sharing my internet cable (640Kb upstream, 128Kb downstream) connection to the other (which seldom uses the internet).
Yesterday I hooked up my house mate's computer (98SE) and shared my connection with him. I noticed that no one can connect to my computer (I have a web server on the computer that is physicly connected to my cable company). Apparently my house mate is gobbling up all my available upstream.
My question is this: with XP (moving to a unix system on my "big" computer atm is out of the question) how can I limit each computers bandwidth? - ie, how can I get my web server back online? (when my house mate is online I can't even ping my computer from work when it ran nice and dandy before (not only was the speed then more than ok, but I always have P2P software working and am always downloading from a local news server)). Another way would be to increase the priority of IIS above anything else (which is what I want)... This would be my prefered solution but ANY solution that would make my web server "reappear" would be GREAT! :)

Any help would be very welcome!

Thanks,
Bail Organa

[cobra25]

how are you sharing?? do you use windows ICS or a proxy a router ????????????????

[cyberskye]

(640Kb upstream, 128Kb downstream)


Did you mix those two up or is your upload really 4x your download?!?

Assuming that was a typo...increase your upload bandwidth. There isn't much else you can do. You are in effect sharing a 2x56K line with a webserver and two clients. Like riding a bicycle on the highway...

Because of the way TCP/IP works, even when downloading you are sending paskets to confirm receipt, provide statistics, etc. With your upload being so low and the service being asynchronous, your upstream queue will max out quickly and make your connection crawl - or unavailable.

A buddy of mine just upped from a 768/768k Symetric DSL to 1.1/1.1m to host his server as his roomates single machine (and couterstrike) is tearing up his bandwidth.

Skye