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| Thread ID: 113063 | 2010-10-04 00:49:00 | Manage Boarding House Internet | berryb (99) | Press F1 |
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| 1141444 | 2010-10-04 20:30:00 | You want either WebGauge or Gargoyle. Gargoyle on a WRT54GL sounds like your best bet, its piss easy to setup and can either throttle or stop data after it reaches X amount. You can set across the board limits with a per-device override if they're paying you more. Sing out if you need more help with setting it up :) Cheers Chill. +1. Tomato and DD-WRT are also considerations. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1141445 | 2010-10-05 12:01:00 | From what I have read so far WebGauge authenticates by username/password and Gargoyle by IP address. Is this correct? For this boarding house authentication by username/password would be much easier to manage as no configuration of IP address is needed. Remove the username as a tenant moves out and create a new one for the new tenant. The site is rather large and will require more than one access point to get coverage. I am not sure what hardware to use yet but may use EnGenius or soething with POE if possible. |
berryb (99) | ||
| 1141446 | 2010-10-05 18:31:00 | From what I have read so far WebGauge authenticates by username/password and Gargoyle by IP address . Is this correct? For this boarding house authentication by username/password would be much easier to manage as no configuration of IP address is needed . Remove the username as a tenant moves out and create a new one for the new tenant . The site is rather large and will require more than one access point to get coverage . I am not sure what hardware to use yet but may use EnGenius or soething with POE if possible . WebGauge tracks based on the hardware address of each device connected, so even if the IP address changes it still assigns the usage to the right person . |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1141447 | 2010-10-07 00:42:00 | What you need is a router with a captive portal, have a look at something like pfSense. pfSense will run on a old x86 machine with dual NIC's, or you could look at something like a PC Engines board. If you think there may be a good number of people using the internet it might be worth setting up a proxy like squid to cache things like Windows updates, may end up saving you a good chunk of data. If you set-up pfSense at the gateway you could add additional NIC's have several networks, one for the boarding house with captive portal enabled and one for your own personal use that would function like a normal network. |
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