How can I throttle the bandwidth consumed by Windows Automatic Updates?

How can I throttle the bandwidth consumed by Windows Automatic Updates? We have many Windows XP computers sharing one connection to the internet. These machines are set to download all available automatic updates and then prompt the user to install them.
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bert [Entry]

"Traffic Shaper XP is a perfect fit.

Features:

Speed limiting for bandwidth-intensive applications and
protocols
Flexible address and port filtering
Acknowledgement prioritization to speed up congested links
Real-time traffic monitoring and stream statistics

Traffic Shaper XP is freeware"

bert [Entry]

Its a bit of an ugly hack but i tend to use this Offline update on a network share as a poor man's WSUS server, especially for getting fresh installs up to speed. Tie that in with a sceduled task, and turn off automatic updates, and it should do