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Title: bandwidth management
Post by: baronne on February 24, 2003, 01:11:22 PM

Hi,

I have a building shared by multiple companies. I wish to provide broadband for all the offices.  I need to ensure the following is observed:

- all the companies have separate networks and remain independant of each other
- they have access to the broadband connection
- they connect to the internet with a password (just as if you connect to an ISP)
- some may require less bandwidth, so I need to be able to 'throttle' the bandwidth per office, ie. a small, single PC office may require only 128K and others 512K.

I have been hearing about VLANs, so I imagine to control the separate networks bit I may have to use a managed switch that can do VLANs (unless, of course there is some way of having E-Smith do it?)

How do I control the users' internet connection with a username and password?

Furthermore, this bandwidth control & management thing. How do I get something like this setup? Preferably some sort of console type thing...

If there is anyone who can help me plan this network and the software / hardware required, I am willing to pay a small fee for your time.

Regards,

Baronne Mouton

Title: Re: bandwidth management
Post by: Brian Read on February 24, 2003, 01:37:53 PM

Baronne

Depending on where you are in the UK, I might be able to help...

Cheers


Brian (brianr at bjsystems.co.uk)

Title: Re: bandwidth management
Post by: baronne on February 24, 2003, 03:04:00 PM

I am in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Where u at?

Brian  Read wrote:
>
> Baronne
>
> Depending on where you are in the UK, I might be able to
> help...
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Brian (brianr at bjsystems.co.uk)