It's been about a year since I started searching for a product that can do a simple thing on my home network and I still have not found it. There is a market need for a router that can set per device data limits to avoid ISP data overages. I get 10GB per month on my satellite internet and my kids would gladly use every bit of it in one day watching "what does the fox say" over and over on youtube in HD on their Kindle, or phone, if I let them. I have no way to prevent this other than to deny them access to the network.
I need a device like a skydog router with content filtering and device management with the addition of protecting you from data overages. ISP's already do this, but the hardware does not exist on the consumer level.
Basicly the scenario is this:
On day 1 at 00:00
Device A gets full bandwith until it reaches 200mb of data.
Device A then gets limited to 56k download and upload until
Day 2 at 00:00 the rule is reset.
Each device gets it's own rule.
Gargoyle seems to be the first product I have seen that approaches this. Can someone confirm that this can be done with this firmware? It seems to be able to from the documentation.
If so, which router should I buy for the most hassle free experience? I am really looking for the least amount of problems with the greatest chance at taking advantage of future firmware enhancements.
I am currentley running DDWRT on a broadcom chip based Netgear WNDR4000. While it does work, the firmware upgrades are limited and it fails at some manual processes, like the time I tried to install content filtering on it.