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Limiting downloads on a wireless router
I would like to give access to the Internet for clients in my waiting room.
But is there a way to stop carrying out huge downloads? They would be using their own laptops or iphones. Is there a wireless router out there which can set a download limit for a particular MAC address? or perhaps a setting on a normal router (to which the wireless router is attached) which limits downloads to a certain IP address on the LAN. thanks in advance. |
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Limiting downloads on a wireless router
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says... I would like to give access to the Internet for clients in my waiting room. But is there a way to stop carrying out huge downloads? They would be using their own laptops or iphones. Is there a wireless router out there which can set a download limit for a particular MAC address? or perhaps a setting on a normal router (to which the wireless router is attached) which limits downloads to a certain IP address on the LAN. thanks in advance. What you want is a Firewall Appliance that has a real DMZ network and to install a WAP (wireless access point) in the DMZ, so that they are not on your company network. Most firewall appliances offer the ability to rate limit traffic. If you allow people to connect to your LAN via the wireless you are violating all sorts of medical security standards. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. (remove 999 for proper email address) |
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Limiting downloads on a wireless router
On 6/8/2010 5:53 AM, jm7 wrote:
I would like to give access to the Internet for clients in my waiting room. But is there a way to stop carrying out huge downloads? They would be using their own laptops or iphones. Is there a wireless router out there which can set a download limit for a particular MAC address? or perhaps a setting on a normal router (to which the wireless router is attached) which limits downloads to a certain IP address on the LAN. thanks in advance. If you wanted to turn off downloading from your network, then you'd have to turn off the HTTP port. If you did that, you'd then be turning off access to all websites. Will make for a very useless Internet experience that way. But as someone else has pointed out, you need a firewall appliance to do stuff like that. Routers are very limited in their configurability. Yousuf Khan |
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Limiting downloads on a wireless router
On 6/8/2010 5:53 AM, jm7 wrote:
I would like to give access to the Internet for clients in my waiting room. But is there a way to stop carrying out huge downloads? They would be using their own laptops or iphones. Is there a wireless router out there which can set a download limit for a particular MAC address? or perhaps a setting on a normal router (to which the wireless router is attached) which limits downloads to a certain IP address on the LAN. thanks in advance. If you wanted to turn off downloading from your network, then you'd have to turn off the HTTP port. If you did that, you'd then be turning off access to all websites. Will make for a very useless Internet experience that way. But as someone else has pointed out, you need a firewall appliance to do stuff like that. Routers are very limited in their configurability. Yousuf Khan |
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Limiting downloads on a wireless router
I wonder if a free service like OpenDNS will do the trick.. Some Netgear
routers support their advanced features. "Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... On 6/8/2010 5:53 AM, jm7 wrote: I would like to give access to the Internet for clients in my waiting room. But is there a way to stop carrying out huge downloads? They would be using their own laptops or iphones. Is there a wireless router out there which can set a download limit for a particular MAC address? or perhaps a setting on a normal router (to which the wireless router is attached) which limits downloads to a certain IP address on the LAN. thanks in advance. If you wanted to turn off downloading from your network, then you'd have to turn off the HTTP port. If you did that, you'd then be turning off access to all websites. Will make for a very useless Internet experience that way. But as someone else has pointed out, you need a firewall appliance to do stuff like that. Routers are very limited in their configurability. Yousuf Khan |
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Limiting downloads on a wireless router
I wonder if a free service like OpenDNS will do the trick.. Some Netgear
routers support their advanced features. "Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... On 6/8/2010 5:53 AM, jm7 wrote: I would like to give access to the Internet for clients in my waiting room. But is there a way to stop carrying out huge downloads? They would be using their own laptops or iphones. Is there a wireless router out there which can set a download limit for a particular MAC address? or perhaps a setting on a normal router (to which the wireless router is attached) which limits downloads to a certain IP address on the LAN. thanks in advance. If you wanted to turn off downloading from your network, then you'd have to turn off the HTTP port. If you did that, you'd then be turning off access to all websites. Will make for a very useless Internet experience that way. But as someone else has pointed out, you need a firewall appliance to do stuff like that. Routers are very limited in their configurability. Yousuf Khan |
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Limiting downloads on a wireless router
On 6/21/2010 10:42 PM, yuppicide wrote:
I wonder if a free service like OpenDNS will do the trick.. Some Netgear routers support their advanced features. I'm not sure what OpenDNS can do that'll let you prevent stuff like that. Yousuf Khan |
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Limiting downloads on a wireless router
On 6/21/2010 10:42 PM, yuppicide wrote:
I wonder if a free service like OpenDNS will do the trick.. Some Netgear routers support their advanced features. I'm not sure what OpenDNS can do that'll let you prevent stuff like that. Yousuf Khan |
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