Newbie says: Hello. And kudos to the devs

[Dan_in_SD]

Hello, and to all Gargoyle/OpenWRT developers .. great job!


I picked up a TP-Link 1043 for around 30 bucks on amazon. Just got it in the mail last night. This morning i fired it up and looked at the OEM firmware for all about 3 minutes before a blew it away for the much better Gargoyle.


Setting it up was a breeze. i had my WAN side configured for "gateway" and my LAN side with DHCP set up in about 5 minutes. The hardest part was thinking up of a new SSID for the wireless network. But all in all i think i was up and running in 15 or 20 minutes at the most.

I used a Wifi Analyzer app on my Samsung Tablet to locate an un-used channel. It was funny 'cause my current wireless gateway was on Channel 1 with about 7 other devices in my neighborhood. I guess these things just default to channel 1. Anyways it seems that channel 9 was the clearest so i picked that one.

I want to run Gargoyle to experiment with different QoS setttings. Also I would like to use the Access Restrictions to make sure the kid's laptops and tablets arent being used when 'homework' should be going on. And perhaps block some questionable websites.

This all seems pretty do-able with Gargoyle correct?

thanks

[Dan_in_SD]

update:

Followed the wiki and created restrictions for sites like pinterest & youtube during hours 9am to 3:30pm (M-F) so that my kids do thier work. (homeschooled)

Enabled web usage / web search monitoring. I quickly discovered that searches using google are not seen due to https connections. bummer. maybe theres a fix for that? maybe a man-in-the-middle sort of 'https proxy' kind of thing that could be used to reveal the search query. doesnt CISCO IronPort web appliances have that. (yea, I know comparing gargoyle to a Cisco I/P is not very fair)

Been learning about the bandwidth statistics as implemented in gargoyle. Is there a way to get longer duration bandwidth history sort of like MRTG / RRDtool. meaning 1 week, 1 month and 1 year of usage