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    Program/script to limit downloads

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by zephyrus17, Feb 19, 2009.

  1. zephyrus17

    zephyrus17 Notebook Deity

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    Is there a program for Windows or Linux that can be attached/installed to a NetGear router or to their individual computers that can limit or count the amount each IP downloads and puts a block or warning when they approach a certain Gb of downloads?

    The reason is that I live in a 5person house, and we get 40Gb of peak-hour download per month, and if you exceed the quota, the internet speed is dog slow. And because no one really knows or admits to that they did it, this is the best impartial method.
     
    zephyrus17, Feb 19, 2009
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    No one knows?
     
    zephyrus17, Feb 22, 2009
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    stewie What the deuce?

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    If you install a software on their computers, it's basically useless, because they're the admins of their own computers, and I doubt they're willing to let one person to be the admin of all computers. Only thing I can think of it's to use a 3rd party router firmware (e.g. Tomato, DD-WRT) to monitor the amount of traffic for each computer and have it logged. What router are you using? Some factory firmware have that function.
     
    stewie, Feb 22, 2009
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    stewie What the deuce?

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    I believe there are also some network monitor utilities that you can use on your machine to monitor all the traffics within your LAN, but I don't have much experience with this.
     
    stewie, Feb 22, 2009
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    stewie What the deuce?

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    stewie, Feb 22, 2009
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    On the ball Stewie.....Uhm....you are not Powerpack in disguise maybe???

    Cheers
     
    TeeJay 44, Feb 22, 2009
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  7. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    stewie is stewie, powerpack is powerpack. :D
     
    stewie, Feb 22, 2009
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    Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor does that a little bit.
     
    Clutch, Feb 22, 2009
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    I just came across the homepage of NBR member Olzenkhaw after reading his post here on NBR.
    On his homepage he offers his program P2POver.
    I haven't used it and can't speak of it's usefulness but it's clean allright. ;)
    Cheers.
     
    Baserk, Feb 22, 2009
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    Normally, the router itself would have that function, isn't it?
     
    lunateck, Feb 22, 2009
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    atbnet, Feb 22, 2009
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  12. zephyrus17

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    I have a NetGear ADSL Firewall Router DG834 v3

    Does it have a built in download limiter?
     
    zephyrus17, Feb 24, 2009
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    I would prefer to use the router to limit the ip's download speed and not a third party program
     
    zephyrus17, Mar 1, 2009
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