On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:59:16PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: > > I have a friend on Satellite internet (it's that or dialup) and they > have a hard cap on the amount of data you can download and upload via > the system. Does anyone know of a system that we can put in place > which will allow her to monitor and control usage of the internet > connection on a per-computer or per-person basis. I know I could put > something together by dropping a linux box to use as a router in place > and I am seriously considering doing this as it will also allow us to > put in a transparent proxy and caching DNS server to help reduce > bandwidth used. In their first month of usage, they hit the bandwidth > limit and there are penalties for doing it more than once. > > Andy
Definitely, drop in a *nix router (IPcop/SmoothWall/ClarkConnect/PFsense), and use their built-in bandwidth shaper/limiters. Problem solved. Also, I'd suggest installing something like squid, so it does router-level http caching, so only the new, relevant things that need to get downloaded actually do. There's no sense downloading a 120kb header.png every time you visit a site ;) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
