Router problems -> Bandwidth allocation, help required!

[Mulder]

Hi there.

We've got a 10mb cable line going into a NAT router which then feeds into a 4 port gigabit switch. From there it goes to 2 different PCs, one upstairs, one down. Problem is, when one PC is using something like Napster, edonkey etc the other PC essentially loses its net connection. Should the switch allocate appropriate bandwidths to each PC? If not, what do we need to do to get the bandwidth shared equally? Cheers.

 

[Mulder]

no it wont allocate bandwidth it will just let one pc take up as much as it wants and then the other can take whats left, there are several aplications that allow bandwidth management however i would recomend getting something like a nescreen 5xt firewall

The router at the moment is a NAT firewall, how would your suggestion help? Do you have the names of any programs? Cheers.

 

[Mulder]

It's a Netgear FR114P Cable / DSL ProSafe Firewall with Print Server. We wouldn't want to block ports so people couldn't download. That's not the idea, and they would just change the ports anyway.
We just want to make it so that when one PC is downloading, the other one can still check email / browse the net etc.

At the moment the other PC just loses internet completely.