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<DIV>look as for all this goes</DIV>
<DIV>ima cable user</DIV>
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<DIV>i am not going to share my access to total strangers, but if you ask me i
will give you 4 or 5 hrs access</DIV>
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<DIV>as for my friends they will give as much access as i can spare, except when
im playing dark age of camelot or something else that i require all my
bandwidth</DIV>
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<DIV>in linux its quiet easy to set max bandwidth to a ip you are shafreing
to</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>i got shown how to today</DIV>
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<DIV>and we wont limit melb wirless to cable/dsl users cous thats just
silly</DIV>
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<DIV>this isnt a eliteist club, its a comunity</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>what people put in is what they get out its that simple</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>or maybe it isnt</DIV>
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<DIV>:)</DIV>
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<A title=goose@bay.net.au href="mailto:goose@bay.net.au">Dave Keller</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=davida@pobox.com
href="mailto:davida@pobox.com">davida@pobox.com</A> ; <A
title=melbwireless@www.wireless.org.au
href="mailto:melbwireless@www.wireless.org.au">melbwireless@www.wireless.org.au</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 14, 2002 10:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Tracking
usage when sharing broadband?</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi All,</DIV>
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<DIV>Instead of measuring in a forwarding rule... Perhaps just an input
rule on the interface connected to the adsl/cable connection. As then
you are not counting the traffic between the other tenants. Coz if u
play games etc or have other comon resources that u share, it will all
count & u r not sure who has actually used the common cable
bandwidth.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Ciao,</DIV>
<DIV>Dave</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A
href="mailto:davida@pobox.com">davida@pobox.com</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> Sunday, 14
April 2002 4:25:49 PM</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>To:</B></I> <A
href="mailto:melbwireless@www.wireless.org.au">melbourne
wireless</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Re:
[MLB-WIRELESS] Tracking usage when sharing broadband?</DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>-->"Bruce" == Bruce Paterson <<A
href="mailto:paterson@tassie.net.au">paterson@tassie.net.au</A>>
writes:<BR><BR>Bruce> I'm thinking of using a wireless router
(probably airport<BR>Bruce> basestation connected to my mac) to share
a broadband<BR>Bruce> connection with friends in the adjacent
apartments.<BR><BR>cool.<BR><BR>Bruce> Is there a way to track usage
so if we know who's responsible<BR>Bruce> for blowing the download
cap :-)<BR><BR>depending on how things are set up, this could be easy
(or not).<BR><BR>Bruce> And which router is recommended for this
purpose (ie. which<BR>Bruce> has the greatest range in the apartment
block context)?<BR><BR>i use a linux box, with iptables. you can define
accounting rules<BR>pretty simply -- my setup has:<BR><BR>/sbin/iptables
-A FORWARD -i eth2 -d 10.0.0.129<BR>/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth2 -d
10.0.0.130<BR>/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -o eth2 -s
10.0.0.0/8<BR><BR>(ie. one chain for machine of interest, plus a common
upstream chain)<BR><BR>and i can report the current totals
like<BR><BR>iptables -L FORWARD -v<BR><BR>which gives <BR><BR>Chain
FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 1114K packets, 553M bytes)<BR>pkts bytes target
prot opt in out source destination<BR>23444 16M all -- eth2 * 0.0.0.0/0
10.0.0.129<BR>154K 115M all -- eth2 * 0.0.0.0/0 10.0.0.130<BR>558K 57M
all -- * eth2 10.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/0<BR><BR>right now.<BR><BR>Bruce>
And is it so that the greatest possible one-way data speed<BR>Bruce>
between the wireless router and the client will be 5.5Mbps?<BR><BR>i
think the raw bit rate, in one direction, is 11Mbps. but you
won't<BR>see that in ftp due to various protocol overheads. through
the<BR>reinforced concrete of your average apartment block, you might
ahve<BR>some trouble with getting 11Mbps working too (ie. it might fall
back<BR>to 5.5 or 2 or even 1).<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>d<BR><BR>To
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