I'm leaning towards buying a WNR3500L unless I find something else I like better. Actually, the WNDR3700 sounds pretty nice, but I take it there's no open source firmware available for this yet. Would that be correct?
Anyway, my main question relates to setting/monitoring Download Quotas, and subsequently throttling bandwidth, which I think falls outside the realm of QoS or just simple monitoring. Is this a feature that's currently available in any firmware?
i.e. With multiple computers connected to the router, 1-2 via LAN and 2-3 wirelessly, in addition to a few other wireless devices such as phones etc., I'd like to be able to set Download Quotas, primarily for the PCs by IP or MAC address.
Once the quota is reached I'd then like to throttle back download bandwidth, and reset everything on a monthly basis.
This is obviously to keep hogs under control. In my case, bandwidth is not so much an issue as monthly download quotas, which are often reached after 3 weeks or so, resulting in my ISP throttling back my entire network for the last week or so.
John T
Tomato firmware allows you to set QOS - so you can restrict traffic to/from certain PC's, and it also has an option for per-IP bandwidth regulation. You don't want to use both at the same time unless you're really good at custom scrips, or so I'm told - but I had this conversation with the author of Tomato some years back when I first installed it.
DD-WRT may allow this too. See the forums/ thread on both of these. The core for tomato will not run on this router, I think... but there is a local fork listed here on the myopenrouter forums.
Hey bigjohn, care to point me in the right direction ? I'm currently running Tomato 1.28 on a Linksys WRT54GL but don't see where per-ip regulation option is.
I must appologize... it was my OLD router's tomato - the viktek mod - that allowed this. I do not believe that this is enabled on this router.
What you can do is assign the target IP's to a QOS class that is very restricted on the transfer rate... I do this with my daughter's laptop. HTTP transfers under 200k are classed medium. Everything else is classed in class C which I set for max 10%.
I'll try to remember to login from home later and look at the exact settings I'm using with my router.
The Victec mod should work on YOURS (my old router was a wrt54gs), FYI - but you can't use regular QOS with Per IP limits.
Thanks for following up. I have now decided to use Gargoyle http://www.gargoyle-router.com/ and this has bandwidth distribution by ip and also quota support and so far has been rock solid. I'm keen to see what happens when quotas are reached. since it sits on top of latest OpenWrt then likely capable of all that Tomato does but is also open source. Tomato has been great over the years though
hello friends
do this with my daughter's laptop. HTTP transfers under 200k are classed medium. Everything else is classed in class C which I set for max 10%
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