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by khinton 1 view

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I have a client that has ADSL, it has a 3Gb limit and then a charge of 17.5 cents per Mb.
Problem is his house is networked and all 4 kids share the connection. The first month they downloaded 22Gb at a cost of $2500, what he wants to do is limit each win98 system to say 500Mb download each per month. Any suggestion would be helpful

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by smithjj

This is how I would handle it with my kids.

I would set up each kid with their own OS account.
I would retain administrator account and password, ie, keep it secret.

I would partition the disk into 5 areas, 1 for each kid and a world area. Iwould give the kids write access to their own area, and read access to every where else. I would give them 500 MB free for down loads. If they need more space for something else, I would give that on a per request basis. I would deduct the download cost from their allowance each month.

By giving them the money for the downloads up front in the form of allowance, they really think about what they want to download and whether it is the best use of their money.

by thechas

I suspect that it is not just downloads, but total data transfered that they are charged on.

All on-line activity from surfine to chat is part of the total.

What will need to be done, is to limit the time each user is allowed.

I would look for a logging utility that would record the bytes transferred for each on-line session.
Then, you can begin to find ways to limit account activity.

Chas

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