Hey everyone red alert. I'm at my sister in laws house and they are in the boonies. They have slow internet 15gb during the day and 50gb at night. They were told that on feb 2nd they had used up their gb's for the month and got hit with a 250 internet bill. I built them an unraid server that they use for watching videos and movies since they can't have Netflix.

 

My question is: they have some kind of dsl and no way of knowing how much bandwith they have used and no way of prioritizing traffic. She uses a vpn to connect to her workplace to access shared files and rarely uses rdp. She has a lot of devices and they may be refreshing or sipping data that she would rather block until 2 am when her 50gb plan kicks in. The unraid server inbuilt them has an intel pc stick running windows 10 with a USB to Ethernet adapter running into a 5 port switch which the unraid motherboard is plugged into. And the switch is plugged into their wifi router.

 

So with that hardware what do you humans recommend I do to help them? I am leaving tomorrow so I need advice right now. I'll be watching this closely. Please help.

 

-Pajamas

 

 

 

 

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Does their ISP not provide them with a way of measuring their usage? Like a portal page where they can login and see how many GB of their plan they have used? Cell  phone providers offer this now. They may be some kind of docker that can measure this and if so, you would have to point every device's gateway to the unRAID server so it could measure the usage of all devices. Someone with more knowledge about this type of docker may be able to help more then I can.

Does their ISP not provide them with a way of measuring their usage? Like a portal page where they can login and see how many GB of their plan they have used? Cell  phone providers offer this now. They may be some kind of docker that can measure this and if so, you would have to point every device's gateway to the unRAID server so it could measure the usage of all devices. Someone with more knowledge about this type of docker may be able to help more then I can.

They probably do but I'd like to be able to send an email alert and set up rules such that if they get to a certain usage threshold they can block all but email and smb for example.


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That sounds to like something pfsense could do, but its a rather complex software firewall to setup, but again someone with more knowledge about pfsense might be able to chime in.