Yet another round of noob questions

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MonkeyCrime
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Yet another round of noob questions

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Greetings. I have many thanks to the creators and supporters of Gargoyle and the usual range of noob questions to ask.

This is my scenario; multiple users, multiple fixed and wireless devices consuming 100GB per month. Each user has a desktop as well as one or more wireless devices (tablet and/or phone). I have an 8 port gigabit switch for the wired devices running into 1 of the 4 ports on my ISP-supplied wireless broadband modem (Thomson TG782T)

My plan:
1. Purchase a TL-WDR3600 router and flash it with Gargoyle.
2. Existing gigabit switch connects to 1 of the 4 ports in the WDR3600.
3. Ethernet port of the WDR3600 connects to 1 of the 4 ports in the ISP modem.
4. Disable the wireless in the ISP modem.

My questions:
1. Does the above plan look workable? If not, what would you suggest?
2. Is there a concept of "device pooling" for quotas? If I know someone uses a desktop, tablet and phone, can I say the total quota for all 3 is 30GB? Kind of like "I don't care which device you use, but you've got 30GB total"

Thank you for your time. I'm kind of excited about stepping out of the Microsoft world for the first time :)

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Re: Yet another round of noob questions

Post by tapper »

Hi mate sounds like a grate plan to me! It's how i have my router setup. You cant groop devices, you wood have to setup a limit for each device.
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MonkeyCrime
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Re: Yet another round of noob questions

Post by MonkeyCrime »

Thank you tapper; looks like thunderbirds are go.

I think I can achieve "pooled quotas". If I assign static IPs to each persons set of devices, then I should be able to specify that IP range on the Quota page. The docco says "The total aggregate bandwidth used by the specified set of IP addresses".

Cheers

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