I take care of a remote off-grid site using Starband for Internet access. Our data plan is 2Gb every 7 days. This is enough if we don’t do bandwidth intensive things like stream multimedia, etc.
I want to implement controls in the 750 there to block some of this stuff. It’s been pretty good just telling users not to do these things so far, but occasionally there can be several visting folks who haven’t got the message and blow through the limit in a couple hours watching YouTube, etc.
I’ve already used proxy settings + L7 defs to stop video and FLV files using some good information I got here. I need some specific info on how to stop things like streaming audio, iTunes (including library sharing), Netflix, etc.
I tried using the proxy to do some of this, but that doesn’t work if the page is already in the user’s browser cache.
It looks like blocking specific IP’s would be a good way to go, but I haven’t found a definitive list for the services listed above.
Any pointers / help / etc. on this will be gratefully accepted.