Unfortunately I live in an area where satellite interenet is my only option. Under the rules of their business plan, I am allowed 1250MB (1.25 Gb)downloads per day without falling under their “Fair Access Policy” (FAP) limitations which disrupts my service for a minimum of 24 hours.
I would like to know how I can keep track of the download limits on a real time basis. I have seen tools such as TORCH that will allow me to monitor “real time”, but as far as I can tell, it does not give me a cumulative total of the received transmissions.
Any advice here will be greatly appreciated. I need to develop a way of tracking and halting traffic when I approach this limit.
A real simple way would be to add a queue on the satellite interface - not perfect because it will lose the count if the board reboots, also it is (apparently) not 100% accurate. But for your purpose it should work fine.
Thanks for your help. I added a simple que to the interface, leaving everything as default. I was lookin in the total statistics section and I see a “Total Bytes” field. Is this for download and upload or just download.
Using firewall passthrough / mangle will essentially do the same thing as a queue and with the same limitations (except it will use less resources). The queue is a lot easier to monitor in real time though.
