dd-wrt supported USB 4G broadband card

[Drew_14]

I'd like to be able to get detailed reports and bandwidth limiting for users on my network as we're all sharing a 4G USB data card. At the moment, I'm using Cradlepoint MBR95, and they're pretty weak-sauce when it comes to bandwidth monitoring. All I can do is alert, then shut-off for the entire connection.

Any hardware ideas?

 

[Alabalcho]

More advanced routers have a feature called QoS (Quality of Service), but even then it is not what you look for. In most cases, you can limit the upload speed on a particular client, but you have no control over download.

You have to negotiate and agree with your peers not to suck all the 'Net available (eg do not watch movies at highest resolution, do not download huge files when others are doing something).

 

[bill001g]

The only one I know that has good caps in the firmware is called gargoyle. It is not as popular as most other third party firmware so you do not see as much router support. They also have a much smaller list of supported broadband devices.

The main problem with any type of monitoring/tracking that needs to be done over long times is storage and processing of data. A router does not have a hard drive and its processor is not really designed to read lots of data and produce reports. Now that you can plug usb drives into them you see some more support but it still not there yet.

Really you need a pc running some form of firewall to do this. You will likely have to place a wireless AP in from of it because doing the wireless function in a pc is a pain. Pretty much you should be able to use a fairly low powered pc running one of the many free firewall images like pfsense.