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I live in a pvt student house in Stellenbosch. Our landlady would like to install adsl to the students. There are 7 rooms- each of us with a pc. We will set up a ADSL router with a switch to all the rooms. I would like to know is there a way she can keep track of who uses what amout of bandwith? In other words we would like to pay for each MB we uses.

Any comments would be appreciated!

Thanks :-)
 
Easy... she just puts her router into "Bridge Mode" ... and leaves it up to the students as to which ISP they want to use and how much they want to use.

The Students then create a PPPoE connection on their computer to dial-up to their own ISP.
 
Have her put the router in bridged mode and everyone can pay for their own access - either prepaid (from WA or Axxess) or a standard post paid account from almost any ISP.

She might want to look into load balancing software along the line.

EDIT - narrowly beaten to it by Garyvdh :)
 
The best way she could do that would installing either a) an internet gateway server or b) getting an internet cafe-type router that can be configured to be pay-as-you-go with recharge vouchers or whatever. They arent that much more expensive and offer wireless aswell. I don't have access to my prices at work but there are quite a few companies that sell these routers so look around :)
 
Thanks for the quick reply! Can any router "Bridge Mode"? Can you please explain the concept of load balancing?
 
Yes, it should. If you can post her router model here... then we can help you with exact steps.

Load balancing software simply "shares" the line equally so that nobody can "hog" the line. It would split the 4 Mb line equally, so each student would get his fair portion without taking away usage from the other guys.

The landlady would only have to pay the Telkom rental portion of the ADSL line. She would have no ISP costs, unless she wanted one for herself.
 
Say she decides on the option to put the router in bridge mode and then everyone pays their own ISP, will she need a pc as well? (if she does not want to use the internet)
 
student8 said:
Say she decides on the option to put the router in bridge mode and then everyone pays their own ISP, will she need a pc as well? (if she does not want to use the internet)
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She only needs to use a PC once to put the router into bridge mode (and save the settings). After that she won't need it anymore. If the router gets "stuck" she can just pull the plug on it for a minute to reboot it. She could just borrow one of the student's PCs to access the router. Or whoever sets it up for her could do it.
 
How many ISP accounts can be connected on one router at the same time?
 
problem with bridge mode is the limitation of the dsl line... if say he arranges for a 4Mbps connection... and you have 7 students all accessing a seperate ISP, you will end up with bw sharing over the line... so essentially you won't all have the same speed spectrum
 
bwana said:
I often have 6 or 7 going at home at any given time.
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Ja, me the same...

and some ISP's like WebAfrica support multiple simultaneous connections, so if any of the students want to share their connection they can also do that.

Can anyone work out what a 4 Mb line shared between 7 students will come out to each?

I figure it out to 571,430 bits per student.... is that roughly equal to each of them having a 512 Kb ADSL line? Seems fair.
 
Garyvdh said:
Yes, it should. If you can post her router model here... then we can help you with exact steps.
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We will be setting up this adsl this holiday, could you please explain how to put the router in bridge mode? It is one of those Telkom Closer ADSL modems.

Thanks
 
student8 said:
We will be setting up this adsl this holiday, could you please explain how to put the router in bridge mode? It is one of those Telkom Closer ADSL modems.

Thanks
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um, I have the Billion Router. Hopefully someone who has the same as you can give more specific info. Try to give us the exact model number if you can... it is printed on the bottom of the router.

obviously ...

Log in to the router using your web browser. I hope you know how to do that?

Then....

VPI:8
VCI:35

Those are the same for all ADSL routers in South Africa... Annex A also.

then, look for a setting on the same page where you enter your ISP settings that says something like encapsulation... and there you should choose "Bridge Mode" or enable bridge mode.

When you do that, the box for your ISP username and password will disappear or go blank.

Save the router settings and reboot it.

Then go to each computer and do the following...

1) Click Start
2) Control Panel
3) Network Connections
4) Start the New Connection wizard and click next
5) Choose the following settings on each successive page..
6) "Connect to the Internet"
7) "Set up my connection Manually"
8) "Connect using a Broadband connection that requires a username and password"
9) Type in the Name of your ISP eg. WebAfrica
10) Type in your username and password that were given to you by your ISP
11) Select "Create an icon to this connection on the desktop"

That's it... you should now be able to dial up to your ISP from your own computer.

Now your biggest problem is going to be stopping the other guys from hogging the connection.
 
assasin20xe said:
i didn't have to put my router in bridge mode and i have PPPoE connections.:confused:
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Then your is already in "half bridge" mode. There is such a thing. That is how mine is set. Any PPPoE connections created on the computer will override the PPPoE settings on the router.
 
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