I have a satellite link that needs to be shared among about 10 people - trouble is, the link is very slow (1 megabit) and there is a daily limit of just 3 gigabytes a day.
After doing some diligent research... I was able to come up with several solutions that may work for me:
Best so far is:
Antamedia Bandwidth Manager
www.antamediabandwidth.com
This allows me to do EXACTLY what I want... but they want 150 bucks for their software - AND to get NAT you need to pay 350 bucks.
Then there is a free firewall:
SmoothWall Express
http://www.smoothwall.org/
But this option was not specifically designed for traffic shaping, and you have to use obscure plugins and linux code to MAYBE get it working...
So 2 questions:
1. Has anyone had experience (good or bad) with Antamedia... and do I REALLY need the NAT on a network of 10-15 computers?
2. Does anyone have any suggestions for a better (or cheaper) way to accomplish this. Limiting bandwidth per user is nice, since the network is large, and the pipe is so small... but daily quota limits are a must have - I really dont want to deal with one of my users "forgetting to turn off their bittorent" and burning though the entire days allotment of bandwidth in 2 hours.
After doing some diligent research... I was able to come up with several solutions that may work for me:
Best so far is:
Antamedia Bandwidth Manager
www.antamediabandwidth.com
This allows me to do EXACTLY what I want... but they want 150 bucks for their software - AND to get NAT you need to pay 350 bucks.
Then there is a free firewall:
SmoothWall Express
http://www.smoothwall.org/
But this option was not specifically designed for traffic shaping, and you have to use obscure plugins and linux code to MAYBE get it working...
So 2 questions:
1. Has anyone had experience (good or bad) with Antamedia... and do I REALLY need the NAT on a network of 10-15 computers?
2. Does anyone have any suggestions for a better (or cheaper) way to accomplish this. Limiting bandwidth per user is nice, since the network is large, and the pipe is so small... but daily quota limits are a must have - I really dont want to deal with one of my users "forgetting to turn off their bittorent" and burning though the entire days allotment of bandwidth in 2 hours.