http://checkip.dyndns.org:8245/ Should give you a better idea of what the real IP is for your gateway. Then head on over to http://www.arin.net/whois/ and put the IP you got into their form. It will tell you who your ISP is. With any luck your complex's owner is violating their acceptable use policy by reselling service to you! (Not that you should persue that.)
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:04:45 -0600, Lloyd Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd love to, but I don't even know who the ISP is, to tell the truth. > The apartment complex uses some kind of distributed phone and cable > system the precludes using DSL or cable. So, I'm kinda stuck with what > they have. It just shows up on my rent bill, and I pay it. The manager > told me that the owner of the complex handles it all, so she (the > manager) doesn't really know who the company is either. I'd have tried > to do some kind of lookup on the gateway and dhcp server ip addresses, > but they were all 10.x.x.x, and so that won't help either. Oh well. > > Lloyd > > > > Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > >Another thing you should do is find out if they mirror any of the > >stuff you're downloading, most ISPs don't count your internal usage. > >Using their web proxy (if they have one) is another good way to slow > >down your usage. > > > >I know that's not what you're looking for, but it counts anyway. > > > >On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:27:36 -0600, Lloyd Brown > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>I have a problem right now with my ISP. Basically, they impose what I > >>consider pretty unfair restrictions on bandwidth, and total data > >>transfer (both up and down) per month. Unfortunately, I'm not in a > >>position to switch, for various reasons. As a result, I've been looking > >>for some method or tool to monitor the total data transfer per month of > >>a particular interface on my gateway/firewall/proxy machine, so that I > >>can see that total, and have the computer send an email to me when I get > >>close to the limit, etc. I don't have any problem working with scripts > >>or databases, but I just haven't found anywhere to pull the statistics > >>from. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. > >> > >>The system is running ClarkConnect Home Edition v 2.1 (based on RH9 w/ > >>kernel 2.4.20), if that helps at all. > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >>Lloyd Brown > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>newbies mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > -- Andrew Jorgensen _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
