Is there a program for Windows or Linux that can be attached/installed to a NetGear router or to their individual computers that can limit or count the amount each IP downloads and puts a block or warning when they approach a certain Gb of downloads?
The reason is that I live in a 5person house, and we get 40Gb of peak-hour download per month, and if you exceed the quota, the internet speed is dog slow. And because no one really knows or admits to that they did it, this is the best impartial method.
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No one knows?
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If you install a software on their computers, it's basically useless, because they're the admins of their own computers, and I doubt they're willing to let one person to be the admin of all computers. Only thing I can think of it's to use a 3rd party router firmware (e.g. Tomato, DD-WRT) to monitor the amount of traffic for each computer and have it logged. What router are you using? Some factory firmware have that function.
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I believe there are also some network monitor utilities that you can use on your machine to monitor all the traffics within your LAN, but I don't have much experience with this.
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I found something that you can use, but the Windows version is not free though.
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On the ball Stewie.....Uhm....you are not Powerpack in disguise maybe???
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Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor does that a little bit.
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Normally, the router itself would have that function, isn't it?
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Netlimiter should do the job
http://www.netlimiter.com/ -
I have a NetGear ADSL Firewall Router DG834 v3
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I would prefer to use the router to limit the ip's download speed and not a third party program
Program/script to limit downloads
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by zephyrus17, Feb 19, 2009.