cammelspit
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Alright, I signed up here just so I could get some help with this. So first let me set the scene.
I own two houses, they are right next door to one another. One of these houses is rented out, room by room to a bunch of roommates. Up until now, these roommates have been kind, respectful and always did as I ask when it comes to internet usage. We use one 300/30 connection from COX and share between both houses using only one AC5300 router. It gets great signal and even my phone on 2.4 only works anywhere on both properties well, love it. But we have started having issues. One of these roommates is one of those people who knows just enough to get himself into trouble. I have a 1TB bandwidth cap from COX, which has been perfectly fine up until the last two months. This guy seems to think it's OK to torrent at a rate that is maxing out the connection and has blasted past my cap by the tune of two to three TB OVER my 1TB limit. Of course, this is unacceptable. I have had several house meetings and have even talked to him personally. Just a few days ago I actually yelled at him for bein inconsiderate and making MY internet that I paid for run like crap and risk getting our whole service suspended, on our 3rd letter from COX already.
Aside from blocking his MAC right at the router level, which I don't want to do because it was understood that internet was part of the rental deal, I have to do SOMETHING! I would like to cap his bandwidth and only his to a modest level of maybe 10/1 but unfortunately, I realized that the bandwidth limiter function in the firmware page does literally nothing. Nothing at all. Not only does it not limit his bandwidth, it doesn't even slow him down when I want to use the connection.
After looking into it, I have come to the conclusion that I need to likely use Merlin and then set a script to limit his MAC to only be able to work at a specific level. Would be nice if I could just throttle all torrent traffic to something silly like 0.01/0.01 and his total overall traffic to a modest maximum or something similar. I don't want to use DDWRT because it's not official or even based off of official software like Merlin is.
I have telnet and SSH working so I can log in and do commands but I need help finding out exactly how to do what I need to be able to do. Otherwise, it looks like I will have to get another router entirely and have that network only connect using 802.11B JUST for this guy. I don't want to do this because I am sure this is an issue that will crop up sometime in the future as the roommates rotate and I want a more permanent solution.
Even if ALL I can do is per client limiting, this should be fine because I can just keep dropping his cap until he stops. I am on the verge of cutting him off entirely but I am afraid to do that because of rental agreements and such, limiting is well within my rights, though.
I need resources and I need some smart people to help me out here. At my wit's end and I will kiss anyone who can help me out here.
Thanks in advance!
I own two houses, they are right next door to one another. One of these houses is rented out, room by room to a bunch of roommates. Up until now, these roommates have been kind, respectful and always did as I ask when it comes to internet usage. We use one 300/30 connection from COX and share between both houses using only one AC5300 router. It gets great signal and even my phone on 2.4 only works anywhere on both properties well, love it. But we have started having issues. One of these roommates is one of those people who knows just enough to get himself into trouble. I have a 1TB bandwidth cap from COX, which has been perfectly fine up until the last two months. This guy seems to think it's OK to torrent at a rate that is maxing out the connection and has blasted past my cap by the tune of two to three TB OVER my 1TB limit. Of course, this is unacceptable. I have had several house meetings and have even talked to him personally. Just a few days ago I actually yelled at him for bein inconsiderate and making MY internet that I paid for run like crap and risk getting our whole service suspended, on our 3rd letter from COX already.
Aside from blocking his MAC right at the router level, which I don't want to do because it was understood that internet was part of the rental deal, I have to do SOMETHING! I would like to cap his bandwidth and only his to a modest level of maybe 10/1 but unfortunately, I realized that the bandwidth limiter function in the firmware page does literally nothing. Nothing at all. Not only does it not limit his bandwidth, it doesn't even slow him down when I want to use the connection.
After looking into it, I have come to the conclusion that I need to likely use Merlin and then set a script to limit his MAC to only be able to work at a specific level. Would be nice if I could just throttle all torrent traffic to something silly like 0.01/0.01 and his total overall traffic to a modest maximum or something similar. I don't want to use DDWRT because it's not official or even based off of official software like Merlin is.
I have telnet and SSH working so I can log in and do commands but I need help finding out exactly how to do what I need to be able to do. Otherwise, it looks like I will have to get another router entirely and have that network only connect using 802.11B JUST for this guy. I don't want to do this because I am sure this is an issue that will crop up sometime in the future as the roommates rotate and I want a more permanent solution.
Even if ALL I can do is per client limiting, this should be fine because I can just keep dropping his cap until he stops. I am on the verge of cutting him off entirely but I am afraid to do that because of rental agreements and such, limiting is well within my rights, though.
I need resources and I need some smart people to help me out here. At my wit's end and I will kiss anyone who can help me out here.
Thanks in advance!
