Dividing bandwidth

[bbos360]

We have a small office (20 workstation4, 4 printers etc over 3 floors). All machines currently use the server as their default gateway for the internet. (The server's second NIC is configured to that of the ADSL router giving us internet access!)

Our connection is fine and pretty fast but we need to allocate more bandwidth to our development machine (as most machines are downloading from napster clones all day taking up valuable resources.)

 

[Ntr0P]

Being a smaller office, if your main issue is really Napster and friends, I would recommend some kind of policy. Blocking many of the file sharing apps isn't exactly easy. They are designed to get around firewalls. The best solution I have seen that would work for a small office would be to install Kerio firewall on each PC (small and free). You can password it and it blocks by application. Hence, it wont matter what port they use or if they use a socks proxy. Also you can use it solely for blocking a couple of apps and allow all others, so it won't interfere with any other workings of your business.

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