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splitting MY DSL Connection

tech · 2006-05-29 18:52:26

Hi there my friend are afetr moving into a rented gaff and have a 3mb Esat DSL connection coming into the house, there are 2 of them in the House both have pc's Im just wondering is there any software or hardware to split this 2mb connection to 1mb each either using MAC filtering / IP filtering username filtering ??

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29-05-2006 7:52pm

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tech

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Hi there my friend are afetr moving into a rented gaff and have a 3mb Esat DSL connection coming into the house, there are 2 of them in the House both have pc's Im just wondering is there any software or hardware to split this 2mb connection to 1mb each either using MAC filtering / IP filtering username filtering ??

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#2 30-05-2006 2:14pm
NutJob

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Linux

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping

the above is the gentoo wiki.

Iproute2 is probably what ur looking for

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#3 31-05-2006 1:26pm
rmacm

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You could also pick up a cheap Linksys WRT54G and flash it with Linux firmware. I'm using DD-WRT on my one and it has traffic shaping and QoS services on it.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/

Cheers
Rory

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