How do I share the speed of my network?

[Malganis]

I have a basic network setup with a Model, a Router to split the connection, and 3 computers and 2 laptops with a wireless card and 1 computer wired to the router. How can I split the connection so that if only 1 is online, it gets full speed, but as soon as the second comes online, it shares it's speed with it, but balanced, so not that if PC 1 is gaming with a ping of 10ms, and PC 2 comes online and streams videos online, PC 1's ping raises to 1000.

Because I have the idea that this happens allot.

One final question;

Which is better, the situation I have now, or a HomePlug network? Internet via the electrical network. A good manufacturer of such products would be Devolo, I heard. Product link; http://www.devolo.com/co_EN_cs/produkte/dlan/mldlanhsethernet.html

 

[Fragrant Coit]

I don't think theres much you can do about it.

It's not the Network thats a bottleneck, its the Internet. If you are happily fragging with a good ping, and someone else starts looking at YouTube videos, you are sharing the bandwidth, and both are gonna suffer to some extent, more so if someone else joins in.

 

[Nodsu]

Better routers have QoS abilities that let you give priorities to different systems.

 

[Malganis]

I've got this router; http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=179477

A Belkin Wireless G Plus.

 

[Nodsu]

This is not one of the "better" routers

 

[Malganis]

This is not one of the "better" routers

It's not a total piece of crap, but I know what you mean. ^^'

Thanks for the info.