absolute beginner

[bizyb]

Our home network connects to the internet via a firewall pc, running wingate 6 pro. A friend set this up for me as were regularly going over our monthly high speed allowance (10gb) and were being throttled back to dial up speed which is basically unusable. It worked really well for months.

But it's starting to happen again and I think my flattie and his girl friend are on the P2P sites so the rest of us can't get on at all. My friend can't help this time as he is on an OE and I've been through the help and forums but they're a bit techy for me.

I urgently need an idiot's guide on how to give some users preference over others, and also for reassurance that everything is configured correctly against intruders, if at all possible.

[adrien]

Hi

What sort of WinGate license do you have? If you have a Professional or higher license, you have bandwidth control which you can use to choke back P2P programs.

Otherwise you could simply block them, but your flatmates might object to that.

Adrien

[bizyb]

i have a wingate pro for 6 users licence.

I see bandwidth control is there but am not sure how to go about setting it up.

I don't want to block him completely but to control it.

[MattP]

You can set up a bandwidth throttling policy as follows:

Open the Extended Networking menu and select "enable bandwidth control"
You will now see the Bandwidth Control menu appear in the left hand pane
If you're only creating one rule then you can ignore "scheduling"



Go to Restrictions and click Add
Name your new rule and choose the priority level, enter the amount of bandwidth you will allow



Go to the Rules menu and click Add
In the Apply Restriction drop down box choose your new rule
Everthing else should be fine left as default
Choose the Source/Destination tab
Check the "rule is bi-directional" box and enter the IP address of the machine to be controlled.
If you want to control a range of machines you can use the subnet mask, otherwise just enter 255.255.255.255.
Choose the port range you wish to restrict. This can be a problem with filesharing apps because they can use so many different ports. For Bearshare the common ports are 6346-6348.



This should be all that you need to do.

[bizyb]

thanx heaps. have put it in place and will see how it goes.