Hi,

I'm going to use Linux + NAT to provide Internet access to my local network. I'm also going to develop a central download manager.

The idea is to use the un-utilized bandwith to download files, specially at night, so that downloading large files will not affect the interactivity of the line.

In essence, what I'm trying to do is prioritizing(?) my downloads so they don't consume the bandwith.

What is the easiest way to do this?

TIA.

I'd look into using shaper.

Seems you would need a client and a server. The client would run on your workstations and add files to the queue depending on if that user needed the file now or could wait.

Have you checked out just using something like getright on your workstations? :)