It's also worth asking, particularly since it came up recently on the list, do you think their location is eligible for ISDN service? Given the extremely high latency of Satellite I think I'd take a bonded ISDN BRI over it anyday . Probably worth looking into.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Brandon Valentine < [email protected]> wrote: > While I don't personally use it (DD-WRT fits my needs), I've heard good > things about Smoothwall: > http://www.smoothwall.org/ > > It's a bootable Linux distro that can be run on old hardware and includes > things like Squid for HTTP caching and RRDtool to graph network usage. It > has a snazzy web interface. As with anything that amounts of Linux running > on an old PC I wouldn't call it novice-proof or maintenance free, but it > should be a bit less of a headache than, say, actually installing a > full-blown Linux instance. And if you setup Dynamic DNS with it you should > be able to SSH or HTTP in to make most changes without going on site. > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>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 >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Brandon D. Valentine > http://www.brandonvalentine.com > -- Brandon D. Valentine http://www.brandonvalentine.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
