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How to "cap" downloads

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by mr_sniper_04

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Hi, I live with 3 other people and we all share the same internet through a wireless router. Only problem is that we can only download a maximum of 95GB a month and somehow within the first week or 2 it is reached. I was wondering if anyone knew a way to 'cap' each computer at 20GB for example so that once a person has downloaded that much then they cannot download anymore.

My router is a D-Link WBR 1310 if that helps at all.

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by rob miners

here as that is a lot of download. Check your Security settings and make sure that you are connecting by MAC Address. Someone else could be cashing in on your connection.

If you use any of these limiters you will have to be able to trust the other two and they will also have to run the software. If it is an internal problem and it is one of the others I would tread very carefully or there will be friction. ;)

http://www.newfreedownloads.com/find/limiter.html

by choppit

Probably not much you can do without installing more hardware to cap/throttle downloads. Ask them to play nice and perhaps install a download monitor so they can see how much data they're transferring. I'm guessing that the majority of your allowance is being used for P2P traffic so look to see if your router supports p2p blocking.

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