Bandwidth

scotte

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This post: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=55803 gives a nice bandwidth monitor tool, NetLimiter, however theres one problem. It sits in your system tray, and can be easily closed, so sneaky little sisters can close it and use up all your cap from their laptops and you never know about it :/ Anyone know of a discrete bandwidth monitor that cant be killed without a password? Tx
 

Paul_S

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A better way to do it is to use a Linux firewall that controls your ADSL connection.
If you set up an IPCop PC and install the URLFilter module you can limit the speed and the amount of data per user per day/week/month, etc.
Quite useful if you want a user to only use 10MB per day or 500MB per month.

And of course it costs you nothing except maybe an old Pentium I PC with 64MB of RAM.
 

MrG

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This post: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=55803 gives a nice bandwidth monitor tool, NetLimiter, however theres one problem. It sits in your system tray, and can be easily closed, so sneaky little sisters can close it and use up all your cap from their laptops and you never know about it :/ Anyone know of a discrete bandwidth monitor that cant be killed without a password? Tx

set a password on your computer
 

ziglet

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how exactly does your sister close netlimiter. Cause if she just right clicks the taskbar icon and says close, thats just closing the client. Netlimiter is a system service: start->run->services.msc and you will see netlimiter is started/running even if the client has been closed. So if you set the speed limit in the client and then closed it, it would still be limited...

Hence if you had netlimiter on various pc's around the house / work. You would install netlimiter and make sure the Netlimiter client does not startup. Then use the remote login to set the limits from a main pc.

;)
 

|tera|

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Never thought of it that way ziglet, nice one bro ;)
 
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