Looking for some advice

[MeltheMighty]

Hi all

I have recently discovered Gargoyle and think it is great! Use it at home to control kids excessive love of internet!

My question is...........

I have 3 holiday cottages linked to a single satellite Internet connection with limited data allowance. I need to control data use at each cottage so that one greedy guest doesn't blow my whole data allowance for the month. The cottages each have a ubquiti wireless bridge connecting them to the main gateway and satellite Internet connection. And an indoor wifi access point in each cottage.

Can I use Gargoyle to do this and if so what do we think would be the best(simplist) way. I have seen various possibilities on the forum but not sure which to use.

Thanks in advance!

[nworbnhoj]

I would install a Gargoyle router as the main gateway and control everything from the one point. Use quotas to assign say 200mb/day automatically to "All Individual Hosts Without Explicit Quotas"
http://www.gargoyle-router.com/wiki/dok ... _scenarios

[MeltheMighty]

Hi

Thanks for the quick reply only just posted!

Yeah saw that one on the scenario's. Definately looks like the easiest way to do it. Problem is, if i understand how that works correctly, if we have a family stay with a gaggle of data hungry teenagers, with three tablets each they could still munch through a load of data between them. And if I set the individual limit low to counteract this that penalises modest users, for example, a couple with only an ipad between them. Is that the case?

If that is the case, ideally I suppose the best way is to control the data going to each access point as a whole no matter how many users. Don't know if this is possible. Wonder if you could use the mac address of each access point to limit data?

[Lantis]

Yea that sounds doable to me.

Each access point is going to have an IP address on the main AP's network.
This is how you would identify them.

Each of the three APs is going to need to hand out addresses on a different subnet to the main AP though.

[MeltheMighty]

Hi

Thanks for that.

So the Gargoyle as the gateway would issue ip addresses to each of the access points on one subnet and then the ap's would issue ip addresses to individual client devices connecting to them on a separate subnet? Would I need to activate the dhcp servers on the ap's to do this? Could the three remote access points all use the same subnet?

Would this mean that the data quotas would only apply to the ip addresses of each of the access points on the same subnet as the Gargoyle gateway? So that once the quota for an individual ap is used up it carries no more traffic until the quota renews? Just to clarify.....by different subnet you mean 192.168.0.X (as one subnet) and 192.168.1.X (as a separate subnet) for example.

Sorry if reiterating the obvious but not a proper techy, all(limited) knowledge acquire from Google!

Thanks!