Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 19:06 Post subject: Is dd-wrt what I need?
I am looking for a way to manage the internet connections in the rooms that I rent to students. Right now I get bills for users who download too much. Here in Belgium we are limited to a download limit of 30GB/month. I asked this question on another forum and they gave me a link to this site and said I might just a find a solution here.
Right now I have 10 students, so I would like to get these 10 students online by their mac adress AND I would like to assign them a specific download limit.
(or if anybody has any better ideas...)
So what I need is
1) A way to assign a download limit to a specific mac adress
OR
2) a way so I can check how much a specific mac adress has download between the first and the last day of the month
Does dd-wrt offer these features? Right now I have a Linksys WRT54GS but I'm willing to buy one of those buffalo's in your shop if that would be better.
I'm also from Belgium, will give dutch text in code:
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Hoi, ik denk wel dat er daar een mogelijkheid zit in het limiteren van verbruik. Er is nl een Hotspot functie voor Wireless clienten(weet niet of het ook zo is? niet vermeld), en daar kan je alleszins een max verbruik instellen, en het systeem werkt met usernames, die jdan telkens met een passwoord aan uw studenten geeft.Indien het niet wireless is, weet ik het niet echt, maar er is waarschijnlijk ook wel zoiets. En als evt nieuwe router raad ik wel een WRT54GL aan, werkt zeer goed. Groeten
I think he is spot on. The best solution would be to do it with the hotspot thing.
You can do QoS based on mac but that limits throughput not bandwith.
But maybe try this first if you don't like logins:
Set the throughput let say between 5-8pm at normal speeds, limit it afterwards.
And see if that helps. I personally don't think that majority of the 30GB* goes to browsing for info for essays and such but to downloading of music, software,...
If you limit there speeds at times they would normaly not use it for school you will discourage downloading. How drastically you do that is up to you. But I've yough (going to khk in geel next year yay) and I've used those old ISDN modems back in the days and yeah its slow and you can't download much but atleast webpages work.
* what kind of subscription do you have for the 30GB? I got ADSL Plus and pay extra ti gave 15GB :(
I just though of a different solution:
Using dd-wrt and a dedicated pc.
Using a filtering proxy. (that what I would do )
allow all traffic comming from the proxy server
Just setup rules so all traffic on port 80 and 443 go through the proxy
Allow traffic on 25, 110,... for e-mail
block all others (maybe push FTP through the proxy aswel but I would disable it)
Then on the proxy you put on filtering rules.
so you can block porn, download sites,... and also block extentions (e.g. block zip, rar, exe, mp3, avi, mpg,...)
Using the proxy you will probebly limit some usefull video's from going though. So what you configure on the proxy should be considered carefully.
Hopefully I was able to provide some helpful information
We have Telenet Expressnet Turbo, and thank you for the info! But a dedicated pc is kind of impossible, there really is no place where i could install that...
Anyway, I think i'll test this dd-wrt firmware as soon as possible, it sounds good :)
Another solution that somebody gave me, was to use dd-wrt together with 'rflow collector'. But then I have to program some scripts I think and that could be difficult.
Anyway, thank you all for replying! I will take a look at all of the solutions here and find out what will work best!
)
