At 11:32 AM 11/19/2011, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Assembled illuminati: The naive networking problem is this; I have a very low cap 'HomeFibre Starter Plus' account with iPrimus; low cap being: 5GB/month 'on- peak' (noon to midnight) 10GB/month (midnight to noon). Since it doesn't cost me anything more; I have elected to share this account via wireless with 2 -4 other users gratis.I would like to restrict their access to 'off-peak' only...but 1/-manually switchng off wireless access on the Linksys E2000 router is possible; but too tedious. -after consultation with Cisco(Aust) it seems this device does not have the capacity to unconditionally switch off wireless during certain hours -but it does have the capacity to restrict certain LAN IP addresses during certain hours Now given that the other users are even more naive than myself, that is asking them for their LAN IP addresses would not be an easy path; can any one suggest a method of gathering these addresses ?
It depends how far you want to go. I won't talk about AUP issues here, I'll assume you're either allowed to share your Internet connection, or are prepared to deal with the consequences of getting caught out. :) There's a couple of ways you can go. You can enforce a specific IP address via DHCP, if you know the MAC address of the other users' PCs. You could alternatively setup a separate wireless access point, and turning that on and off with a simple timer at the appropriate times. The other way is to go to a hotspot like web portal system, which can also keep track of usage, so you can even cut off a user who blows their quota. I think there's some open source ones around. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com