[KLUG Members] What is the best way to limit bandwidth consumption?

[Thomas Ross]

What are the different ways you(pl) can think of to limit bandwidth consumption?

Assume you have a local area network of computers where 1 computer uploads (FTP) mass amounts of data at sometime in the day.  At this time all other users are bogged WAY down to the point of inactivity.  For argument sake here is a sample network.

There are ~10 computers on a 10mbps LAN which plugs into a 100mbps switch.  There are 4 computers on this 100mbps switch.  One of those 4 is the upload computer.  Also, keeping good bandwidth on the upload computer is important.  75% speed is acceptible.

i.e. 
1) drop the hub and place everyone on a switch. 
2) Use a governing FTP program like www.???.com 
3) Redesign the LAN topology to use load balancing.  Use the Cisco ????? .. 
4) etc...

Hoping for some good (diverse) ideas,

Thomas
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/pipermail/members/attachments/20040714/868e77ef/attachment.html