Advice needed on limit sharing

daveza

daveza

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Perhaps someone has a solution to prevent family feuding..

Here's the scenario:-

1 household
3 pc's win xp
adsl router
3 gigs traffic limit per month

that makes 1 gig each..

Halfway through the month the limit is reached.
Nobody owns up and all blame each other for exceeding their share.

Question -

Is there a way to monitor each users usage and/or

is there a way to limit each user to 1 gig per month ?

I could use netlimiter, but this could just be turned off.

Any practical and relatively simple suggestions welcome.
 
Netlimiter has a feature for it to be used without the GUI, which just leaves it running in the background and the process can't be killed.

So it depends how clued up the other 2 users are. You could still just uninstall it... but then you know who's scared of their usage figures :p

I haven't used NetLimiter in a while actually, maybe someone else could tell you exactly how this works. I know it can be done when you are using more than one account on a PC, then certain accounts couldn't access Netlimiter at all.
 
Syndyre said:
You could have a 1 gig account each?
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How would that work? All going through one router.

I don't actually use ADSL so I'm not so sure about this, but could this work by using the router in bridged mode and then each PC dials in using his own username and password, I could actually use this too, would it work that way?

Seeing as Routesentry doesn't work for Vista I was looking for some way of easily going between a IS local only and SAIX account so that it wouldn't affect all the other PC's ability to browse internationally.

btw, besides that this sounds like a complicated solution, he'd have to cancel his one account and sign up for three more, might be easy with some ISP's, hopefully he's not with TelkomISP.. ALso will work out more expensive, hardly worth it.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
How would that work? All going through one router.

I don't actually use ADSL so I'm not so sure about this, but could this work by using the router in bridged mode and then each PC dials in using his own username and password, I could actually use this too, would it work that way?
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That's precisely the way it would work.
Ekhaatvensters said:
btw, besides that this sounds like a complicated solution, he'd have to cancel his one account and sign up for three more, might be easy with some ISP's, hopefully he's not with TelkomISP.. ALso will work out more expensive, hardly worth it.
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Three 1gb webafrica accounts would cost R210 (r70 each) - a talkom internet account costs r249. A webafrica 3gb account costs r199 so it's R11 more and probably worth it for the peace of mind. :)
 
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Ekhaatvensters said:
...using the router in bridged mode and then each PC dials in using his own username and password....
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This sounds good - can you give me a simple how-to on the bridged mode scenario ?

Am I getting this right - 3 simultaneous but seperate dial-ups per single adsl router/line ?

Is there a downside to this configuration ?
 
Only downside is, you have to dial up each time you start the pc. All you have to do is go into your router and set it to Bridge mode, not PPPOE, then you go into network connections and create a new broadband connection, PPPOE, enter username and password>connect>VOILA! ;)
 
Just thought of something -

The router has a wireless facility. Would it still be possible on one of the 1 gig dial-ups to share the connection with a laptop connected via wireless ?
 
daveza said:
Just thought of something -

The router has a wireless facility. Would it still be possible on one of the 1 gig dial-ups to share the connection with a laptop connected via wireless ?
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I would think so. It should work in exactly the same way, the only difference is how the PC connects to the router, it shouldn't have any impact.

If there is a problem I'd also like to know, I would have similar setup.

Lucky that you are on Web Africa, they seem to be the best, easy to cancel or create accounts with them. I'm also going to be signing up with them and doing something similar.
 
Just a quickie to say thanks to all.

It works like a charm and no problem with the wireless network either.

Everyone has their own bandwidth and can't blame anyone else when its gone.

A vote for WebAfrica as well - very helpful website, very simple to purchase another gig or more and it doesn't get wasted at the end of the month !
 
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