hey there are currently 5 people living in my house. Each with their own laptop and each using the same wifi router on a 25gb/month bandwidth. By the end of the month we have run out of bandwidth and are all arguing over who used it all.

Is there anyway to monitor how much bandwidth is used from each of the people on the router?

any help is greatly appreciated

Depends on the software you're using; I don't know of the top of my head any way to do that, though. Might be QoS you're looking for.

DD-WRT (I think that's what it's called.)

The standard builds for DDWRT have bandwidth monitoring stuff, I believe.

Then use OpenWRT and install the other software yourself. Or replace your router with a machine running OpenBSD and set up the necessary stuff on that.

Then use OpenWRT and install the other software yourself. Or replace your router with a machine running OpenBSD and set up the necessary stuff on that.

or try using Bandwidth controller.
http://bandwidthcontroller.com/

or try using Bandwidth controller.
http://bandwidthcontroller.com/

My solution

Is free as in free speech and as in free beer (from the looks of that, the version of that which will do the same as mine is neither)
Will work for any OS behind the machine on the network, not just those running Windows 2000 or XP
Requires no installation or configuration except for the actual machine. All traffic-shaping is transparent to clients.


Also, setting it up will be a great experience in learning Gnu/Linux or BSD as well as networking.

Might want to ask this to the openbsd-misc list, phrasing it in BSD terms when you've done some homework on it. Most of the people on there seem to be sysadmin or network guys at ISP's, so they'll definitely have an answer.

My solution

Is free as in free speech and as in free beer (from the looks of that, the version of that which will do the same as mine is neither)
Will work for any OS behind the machine on the network, not just those running Windows 2000 or XP
Requires no installation or configuration except for the actual machine. All traffic-shaping is transparent to clients.


Also, setting it up will be a great experience in learning Gnu/Linux or BSD as well as networking.

Might want to ask this to the openbsd-misc list, phrasing it in BSD terms when you've done some homework on it. Most of the people on there seem to be sysadmin or network guys at ISP's, so they'll definitely have an answer.

Well, i never set that my solution is the best, its just an alternative if the OP for some reasons can't implement your idea.

IMO if i had a spare system i would have gone for mikrotik or any Linux based system but since your using Windows Xp and some cases don't want another system on the network then my solution just might work out.

It does have a client version and a server version, you just install the client version on users PC and the server version on any PC. Configure them and you will have almost total control over their bandwidth :).