Re: Re: Limited broadband allowance - how to enforce in the house during the day

[Andy Powell <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 May 2009, at 22:02, noel_pilot wrote:

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>
> Netgear DG834G adsl modem/router, also have an Apple TimeCapsule
> with wireless AP that I could use instead if easier. No hardware
> currently running throughout the day pc/server wise.
>
> Looking towards getting a mac mini server in the next six months or
> so.
>
> Thanks
>
> Noel
>
>
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I work for LinITX.com who sell routerboards and other embedded
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I don't know anything about the Apple device and my brief searches for
the netgear suggest that it can not do rate limiting. You might be
looking at either an old PC/embedded box running pfsense, monowall or
zeroshell or something like a RouterBoard running routeros which can
make timed changes using scripts so you could apply different
ratelimits at different times. If you have an old pc about I'd take a
look at using that first as it'd be zero cost (unless you had to buy a
network card or two).


pfsense, monowall and zeroshell are all free software.

http://www.pfsense.org/

http://m0n0.ch/wall/

http://www.zeroshell.net/




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