Internet shared via Airport Express - Speed control

Good morning all,
I am using an AirPort Express base station to share my internet connection between two computers. I have a cable modem connected to the AirPort Express, and both my iMac and my brother's PC connect wirelessly to the AirPort Express base station.
Now the problem is that the PC is using extensively the bandwidth, whereas the Mac cannot hardly browse the web. As I do not need a fast connection to the Mac all the time, but only in specific occasions, I would like to be able to control how much of the internet bandwith is used by each of the computers connected to the Airport Express base station.
I have checked the manual setup in the AirPort utility, but I cannot find this setting.
Does this exist? Can it be done?
(I know I can ban a specific computer from connecting to the network, but this is not what I want).
Thank you in advance for your help and assistance.

This feature is NOT available on any of Apple's base stations.

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1. Activate internet sharing
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