[Ubuntu-ZW] Econet and headaches

[Simpson Moyo]

Hi,

With the setup i did for my friend you can:

   1. do time billing and set maximum download speed... so if you give
   someone 30 mins or 1 hour you can set the download speed to 56k so they can
   do decent browsing but cant abuse the connection by doing heavy downloads...

   2. you can also do time+usage billing where a person buys 1 hour/10mb so
   which ever comes first they get disconnected...

Simpson


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Kalpesh Thaker <luminary06 at gmail.com> wrote:

> this is tricky, what you may be looking for is a bandwidth shaper or
> bandwidth manager.......
> in any case, because econet charge on usage, you now have two issues to
> address -->
>
> 1 - the amount of time someone may be occupying a workstation
> 2 - how much bandwidth they are using
>
> initially, you only had to worry about how much time someone was occupying
> on a workstation,
> because your bandwidth was a set fee...and you could use as much as you
> wanted to.
>
> there are alot of commercial bandwidth shapers.. but they get very
> expensive..
>
> the easiest and most viable solution is for you to implement a squid proxy,
> using ACL's and delay
> pools.. you can actually create 'bucket' rules that can be IP specific.. so
> if someone uses up
> 15mb, the connection can slow them down, or cut them off once the limit has
> been reached.
>
> more information can be found here:
>
> http://quark.humbug.org.au/publications/squid/aclsquid.html
>
> and here:
>
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/DelayPools
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:57 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Friends,
>>
>> we support 2 small sites where they among other things offer internet
>> access (read sell it). They were using the "old" Econet 25/USD per month
>> package and could then charge for time, printouts etc. How it worked is
>> another story.
>>
>> These computers use KDE Kubuntu 10.04 btw, am considering upgrading to
>> 10.10
>>
>> The new "bundles" is a major headache... how do they now charge? If one
>> user sits on Facebook/Youtube for x minutes and chew up bandwidth how do
>> you measure/charge for that? Another simply reads email, checks out
>> newssites and does research, can sit for much longer but use much less
>> bandwidth...
>>
>> Anyone else in this fix, anyone knows a tool that measures "used
>> bandwidth" and could possibly cut at a reached amount?
>>
>> Best
>> Sinclair
>>
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