Peter,<br><br>It is very possible to do this. The node I had had tc 4 linux controlling the bandwidth. I don't know if this is possible to with the wrt and meraki mods.<br><br>Hafeez<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 9/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Berrett</b> <<a href="mailto:berrettp@optusnet.com.au">berrettp@optusnet.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Hi Hafeez<br><br>Its I funny you should mention this because I was pondering about this<br>kind of a setup myself the other night. I had read about how some<br>generous people had made the internet freely available but then realised
<br>that if someone leeched too much it would cause problems with download<br>limits.<br><br>I did the maths regarding throttling. At 10k/s continuous this would<br>equate to 600k/minute thus 3.6 meg/hour thus 86.4 meg per day thus
<br>roughly 2.6 gb per month.<br>So lets say you have a 12 gb download limit you could probably service<br>say 5 users at 10k/second continuously. One would probably have to halve<br>that if uploads are counted eg 2.5 users @10k per second. But very few
<br>people would use such a low speed connection continuously over a month<br>so chances are a much larger number of people could be serviced. Also<br>the extra nightime download limits allow a bit more breathing space.<br>
<br>So after all that one could probably set up a free internet node<br>throttled back to say 20k per second and then adjust the speed according<br>to the level of demand ie if download limits get exceed the speed could<br>
be throttled back further. The might also be different throttling speeds<br>depending on the time of day.<br><br>It is definently doable and as you say, seems like a good way to get to<br>know the neighbours.<br><br>Regards Peter
<br><br><br><br><br>Hafeez Bana wrote:<br>> Hi Gavin,<br>><br>> A while ago I setup a suite of software on my wireless linux box that<br>> had a dlink card that allowed me to publish that my AP was open for<br>
> free internet access but the person using it had to call me.<br>><br>> I made a lot of friends this way and I also got to speak to neighbours<br>> who I would never have the courage to talk to. The AP kind of evolved
<br>> into a really strong nice mini community of it's own - what I call<br>> "Neighbour 2 Neighbour networking".<br>><br>> We had some people abuse the system and I added bandwith throttling<br>
> tools to it and so it was pretty robust.<br>><br>> I have been thinking if it is possible to set something up that in a<br>> simple little router rather then having a whole linux box.<br>><br>> Hence my interest in the meraki and linksys. However I have never
<br>> upgraded firmware and am basically looking for someone to hold my hand.<br>><br>> Hafeez<br>><br>> On 9/20/07, * Gavin Jackson* <<a href="mailto:gavin@toolernvale.com">gavin@toolernvale.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:gavin@toolernvale.com">gavin@toolernvale.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> You have not quite explained what you are wanting the Meraki's for ?<br>><br>
> There is the standard Meraki mesh software and the Openwrt<br>> installable software that can be loaded.<br>><br>> The issue is, once the Openwrt software is loaded, It seems a bit<br>> hard to get back to the original software as it changes the disk
<br>> structure and overwrites the orignal software..<br>><br>> Putting the Genie back in the bottle appears complicated.<br>><br>> Most of the units that have been imported have had this<br>> modification done to them as they are purchased by "tweakers"
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