[wellylug] Traffic monitoring on home network

[Bruce Hoult]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Andrew Tarr<andrewtarr at gmx.net> wrote:
> Jethro, you were right in thinking 20Gb wouldn't go very far - the new
> flatmates after saying 5Gb would be enough for them managed to churn
> through the 20Gb in 4 days themselves!  Rather wanton and self-centred
> of them really

I really can't understand why anyone would expect that one size fits
all on usage is appropriate or desirable.

Some kind of traffic monitoring per machine and charging people for
what they use seems the only way to go, and should not be too hard. If
you can re-flash a commodity router to do it then that's great, but in
any case an old PC with a couple of cheap ethernet cards running Linux
is easy enough to get hold of. In fact I have a small pile of small
form factor P3/650 (?) machines sitting here doing nothing.

Can Donald be helped to finish his system? Would a codeathon one
weekend be appropriate?

Some of you know that I've been sharing my cable modem with a friend
in another nearby suburb for nearly two years now using a pair of
Meraki Mini's hooked up to 15 dbi antennas. The Meraki web site keeps
track of traffic and is near enough for our purposes, but I do want to
move to something a bit less hacky and more scalable to multiple
subscribers sometime.

http://hoult.org/bruce/merakinet.jpg

David (on the other end) got rid of his DSL and the phone line too,
and is doing VOIP over the Meraki wifi link and out my cable modem.