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TheSolumnOne

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Hi guys,

Hopefully I'll get an ADSL line installed to my home within the next month (ordered on 30 May). Is it possible to manage more than one login to an account using a single PC? I'm renting out 2 rooms in my house, and I want to manage the bandwidth the renters use on my ADSL account from my PC without routing the actual traffic through my PC. If this is possible, could somebody pls let my know of some software to manage this seperately from LAN traffic?

Much appreciated.

Cheers
 
ADSL routers are like little computers themselves, you access your modem through your computer by putting it's IP address in your address bar of Internet Explorer and you're then able to change your modem settings. You then save these settings to flash, and the modem is able to remember them independently.

The traffic won't go through your PC, presuming your tenants are connected directly to your ADSL modem by cable or wireless connection as opposed to being connected to your PC itself.

There are ways to manage traffic through your modem, I haven't done it myself, but I do know that you're able to set Quality of Service settings, so you can limit your tenants' download speeds. I presume you might also be able to set a download limit as well.
 
A dedicated Linux firewall router would do the trick, something like IPCop.

You'll need an old PC - even an ancient Pentium I will do - a bit of time and a fair amount of reading.

Ingredients :-

IPCop
1 x old computer
2 x NIC's in computer
A fair slice of your time

The final ingredient in that mix is dependent on your knowledge of PC's. If you r comfortable building them and installing Operating systems from scratch, it won't take you more than an afternoon to do. If your not, heck, it's a long haul ... :D
 
I'm planning on using a wireless setup but haven't yet bought the router. Any suggestions for a router for what I have in mind? I actually have an old P166 around somewhere (will that still be enough?), will try configuring a Linux firewall or something if I'm not able to get the router to implement the necessary functions. Thx for the quick reply. Much appreciated.

Cheers
 
TheSolumnOne said:
I actually have an old P166 around somewhere (will that still be enough?), will try configuring a Linux firewall or something if I'm not able to get the router to implement the necessary functions.
Cheers
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I've been running an IPCop firewall on a P133 with 40MB of SDRAM for a few years and before that it was a 486-DX100 with 40MB of RAM running an Apache server, FTP server, VOIP server and firewall. Good use of old hardware.
Try do that with Windows XP ... :P

I don't think you can limit total bandwidth used with IPCop so in that case you may want to use a more general purpose Linux distro or a custom version of IPCop and write some scripts to handle it. Just need to analyse the logs or keep interface stats and insert a rule into ipchains that blocks traffic after x number of bytes are used.

Paul
 
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nGAGEd55 said:
IMO the easiest would be to put your router into bridge mode and let them buy their own ADSL account. :cool:
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I agree with nGAGEd, don't make it too hard on yourself, if you do all the other extras you will be held liable more than you should, why isn't my internet connection working? Why is there nothing left of my cap? blah blah blah.

Set it to bridged mode and then the tenant creates a new network connection and dialups via PPPoE.
 
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