When i was a boy, we had a computer made by the Digital Electronics Corporation, and we had things called monochromatic VT100 monitors, Card readers, thermographic printers, green bar fan fold paper, and all kinds of cool, wood burning, steam powered computer stuff. One thing we had that was really cool was as sysop, I could give myself a high priority in the scheme of things, so the mother ship thought my stuff was more important than anyone else's stuff, and gave me first shot at cpu function. On the mighty airport express network here in suburban NJ, I am frequently frustrated while waiting for someone's facebook scrabulous page to refresh, which causes my more important trivia quiz to beachball. Anyone know of a way to set user priorities on an airport network? I'd like my privs set to "almighty' while everyone else around here will have to do with "mere mortal." Your thoughts?<br><br><br><br><br>Coming to terms with the notion that life is dynamic.

LOL. I still say you missed your calling, great writing.<br><br>I've been following your wireless travails. One question. How many people are running off of the network at once. I can't understand why you have such lags in connectivity unless it's a classroom full or unless someone is downloading huge files.<br><br><br>------> JD's Trivia game<br><br>------> MCF-MM Trivia game

The setup is very straightforward, mon ami: There is the cable to the modem to the AX, to usually two and sometimes five 'puters. When the boy is home, there "may be" some p to p load going on, but usually the girls and the boyfriend are merely eMailers. I have considered, and relocated, cell phones, tv remotes, cordless phones, and boxes of reynolds wrap. I have techtooled, upgraded, defragged, rebooted, disconnected and rewired everything between the telephone pole and the fingertips. And yet, the SBOD is my constant companion aiding and abetting my apparent sloth in the quiz and causing all kinds of delays in all kinds of top secret government-type file transfers. Others notice and complain of said latency, but none of us has arrived at a solution. I am pretty certain it's an environmental issue, because last week at Quantico, on a network that's probably a little spiffier than mine, this thing fairly hummed. But, at home, he's a slow one. That's the story, RB. To paraphrase Ross Perot: I'm all ears. <br><br><br><br><br>Coming to terms with the notion that life is dynamic.

Unless there is a big download going on you shouldn't be having the issues with only two machines running and the others asleep. I'm sure you've worn out the reset hole on the AX by now.<br><br>What happens if you pull the AX out of the setup, (turn it off too) and run the Ethernet from the cable modem to one machine instead of the AX, maybe one that's not used much, and let that machine do Internet sharing via its Airport card? If it still is slow maybe it is environmental. Maybe one of the machines has a marginal Airport card that when turned on causes interference? That may help determine if the AX base is flaky.<br><br>Of course the network is password protected.<br><br>These are all Macs?<br><br>------> JD's Trivia game<br><br>------> MCF-MM Trivia game

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p><br>Unless there is a big download <br><p><hr></blockquote><p><br>No. Upload. Upload kills response time.<br><br>P2P, without the application upload being rate limited (which you can only control via the application at this level), it will consume all available upload bandwidth. No upload bandwidth == no timely ACK responses from TCP connections which means you don't get packets for your non-P2P applications in a timely manner.<br><br>QoS (Quality of Service) is how you can prioritize bandwidth. QoS needs to be enabled on the full path, from the source to the destination. In your case, it would be up to the point of the router. 99% sure Apple isn't going to support this. Get some decent gear, like Cisco PIX/ASAs At any rate, each device in the chain would have to support it.<br><br>OS/Application -> WAP -> switch -> router (or any setup you can think of).<br><br>Play World of Warcraft, for free!

QoS on my Zyxel DSL-modem-router-wifi-firewall-combo won't let you manage it computer-wise, but technology and application-wise. I have no experience on Airport networks whatsoever, so I can't tell how to set it up there, I don't even know how the interface is on AX.<br><br>I guess he might be able to setup the HTTP port on his son's computer to something other than the standard 80, or his own, for that matter, and then limit it that way. If AX has QoS available in the first place. Again, I don't know, so I'm just speculating.<br><br>

you mean something like this?<br><br>or mb... this? <---<br><br><br>"in times of peace the warlike man attacks himself."<br><br>[color:red]Libertarian Communist</font color=red>

I hadn't considered the firewall. i'll give it a look. thanks. <br><br><br><br><br>Coming to terms with the notion that life is dynamic.

i think you need the second ink, QoS, per user.<br><br><br><br>"fly peacock, fly."<br><br>[color:red]Libertarian Communist</font color=red>

throttle pro will only cap upload.<br><br><br><br>"fly peacock, fly."<br><br>[color:red]Libertarian Communist</font color=red>