WiFi repeater with data control

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The situation/problem: It's an odd set up. We currently live in a household with a lot of family members and our only options for internet are ones with bandwidth limits per month. We settled on Verizon installed 4g LTE because its faster than satellite and it has a better connection than hotspots. So our household with tons of devices causes us to go over every month and we have no way to track who the culprit is with the firmware that is on the verizon router by default. it is a modem/router (single box) that is specific for the setup and we can't switch it out with a router that has better control options. We would like to view each device/or ip's monthly data usage and/or control monthly usage per device. Feel free to look, but i didn't see options for the TG790 (verizon router/modem) to monitor or control data usage per user.

What I want to do to solve it: So I was thinking of using a wireless repeater/ range extender if there is one that has the data control options I want. That way I can change the verizon router password, force everyone to go through the repeater (not giving them the new password for the normal router), and control their usage through the repeater.

So my question is after explaining my situation, is there a repeater / range extender that has the data control options like this? If not, is there some kind of third party firmware for the TG790 that has the data control? If I've struck out twice with these questions, is there another option that I havnt considered?

I know what I want to do roughly, but I don't know whats out there that might be compatible.

Verizon TG790 router/modem is being used. ISP is 4G LTE (Verizon). The amount of devices connected to the setup is roughly 2-3 pc's, 6-10 phones and a few various other devices. This obviously changes throughout the day, but that would be maximum connections at one time most likely. typically there is no more than 5-6 devices connected at one time.

Thank you for all your help ahead of time, and I believe I included all relevant information that would be needed. Please let me know if I left anything out that could be helpful, I'll be sure to add it.

 
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here is something that might work for you:

Check if the Verizon router has a DMZ setting.

if it does, you could connect a router of your choice to the Verizon one, assign it a Static IP from the Verizon router's IP scheme to the new router, and place that IP into the DMZ of the Verizon router?

then make sure everybody connects to the new router.
 
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First I want to apologize for the untimely response. I've had a lot on my plate recently. Yes the verizon router does have a dmz option to allow one device t be "fully exposed to the internet" as the setting states. So how do I go about assigning the new router a static ip? I know what it is, but have not done this before.
 
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bill001g

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You are asking a lot from a single box.

You first major problem is you want to use it as a wireless repeater. Almost every repeater device you can find uses WDS to accomplish this function. This means the SSID/password and radio channels are all the same. There is no way to prevent a user from directly connecting to the main router when you must leave the ssid and passwords the same as the repeater.

What you need to do is build your own repeater. You need 1 radio to talk to the main router using its own ssid/password and a second to talk to end users. You might be able to do this with a dual band router but you would then only have 2.4g or 5g to talk to the end users. You could use a wireless client-bridge device and plug it into the wan port of the secondary router which would then think it was connected to a wired internet.

You are going to be much better off using a ethernet cable to connect to the verizon device, it remove the mess of the repeater problem.

So if we assume you have fixed the first issue you now have the harder issue of capping the bandwidth. This is kinda a rare feature. There is one third party firmware called gargoyle that has the ability to assign caps by users. It has been a while since I used this but it had a fairly limited choice of router it would run on. Still most the very popular ones were on its list. There is other firmware you can get usage reports but I don't know of any other that lets you place a actual cap.
 
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Snowstark

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After looking closer I found this gargoyle firmware and on their site they have some routers with it pre-installed. They do have control, trheottling, and usage monitoring. So if you think it might work to connect to it via ethernet cable using a static ip and dmz setting on the verizon router, and this firmware does offer the data control, do you think there are any issues I might run into I'm not considering?
 
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bill001g

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You would not even have to bother with DMZ and static ip if you did not want to. This is mostly the issue of dual NAT and and UPnP which primarily affects console games. But if you cable it to the main router it should do what you want. Remember this put a burden on the router to collect and keep all that data so do not buy the cheapest router you can find, it need processor and memory to provide this function.
 
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Snowstark

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Ok I will be ordering it and trying it out I think. I'll let you know how it turns out and Im sure I'll have questions when I go to set it up. Thanks for all your help.
 
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