>Bandwidth management & traffic shaping on your home network???? >Unless you're learning how to do it so you can then do it at work, >seems like a huge overkill. > >> I was wondering what sort of processing power is needed for such a >> computer? > The main reason would be to prioritize upstream ACK packets. I have a small web and ftp server running for some friends, and I don't want the upsteam trafic to impact my dowmloads... Balazs