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Came home from work yesterday on my break to find a message on the phone, I had just finished loading 35 bags of cow shit into a guys truck, got home and... "uhm yeah bla bla bla, your using a MASSIVE amount of bandwidth, i dunno what your running or doing but im gunna go ahead and close down your account, call me at...".
So here I am, 17 hours later, called about 5 times to both the ISP and the guys cell-phone. All I was doing, was downloading 3 .ISO images for Suse linux (or maybe it was freebsd), then got up and left for work. The internet was fine for the last year, but recently they decided to lift all throughput limits on everyones account, so sometimes I Peak out at close to 4Mbps. According to the man on the phone, I broke their spineless backbone just all by myself (reason for such drastic measures as closing an account). They could've easily used the traffic-shaping built into their servers, but whatever.
So im pretty pissed right now, since my only day off from work, and my only day to catch up on school-work (2 weeks behind) is shot down. Since my ISP is run by the three-stooges, Ive decided this is one more reason to look into a do-it-myself PC based router.
Looking into monowall, but can anyone think of anything else that might be able to keep track of bandwidth usage, and limit throughput during the day?
So here I am, 17 hours later, called about 5 times to both the ISP and the guys cell-phone. All I was doing, was downloading 3 .ISO images for Suse linux (or maybe it was freebsd), then got up and left for work. The internet was fine for the last year, but recently they decided to lift all throughput limits on everyones account, so sometimes I Peak out at close to 4Mbps. According to the man on the phone, I broke their spineless backbone just all by myself (reason for such drastic measures as closing an account). They could've easily used the traffic-shaping built into their servers, but whatever.
So im pretty pissed right now, since my only day off from work, and my only day to catch up on school-work (2 weeks behind) is shot down. Since my ISP is run by the three-stooges, Ive decided this is one more reason to look into a do-it-myself PC based router.
Looking into monowall, but can anyone think of anything else that might be able to keep track of bandwidth usage, and limit throughput during the day?