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Is there any way I can, on each PC on my network, limit the usage of the WAN to a certain amount? For instance, with 3 people using internet in our house and a 5 GB limit, we have about 50 MB each per day. However, we often exceed this and have to pay fines for the excess usage. Upgrading to a 10 GB plan is more expensive, so we don't want to do that.

So any hints, programs or advice would be appreciated

On my router you can set such things has that, for each PC on the network.

I had developed this some time ago when i was using a limited MB plan.

Right now it needs to be run in priviledged credentials (specially on Windows Vista, where it can not work if you are not running it as admin). When your quota is over, either daily quota or the total account quota, it pops out info boxes from tray. You can also set the warning levels in terms of MB remaining.

If you are interested, you can simply replace the message popping code with a WMI script to disable the network interface. This is not a very sophisticated code or tool, and you might want to add some more things like communication between all 3 of your machines so that a global usage counter is maintained, or else you can divide the max usage accordingly among 3 machines.

Hope it helps.

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A network traffic monitor. Put it in your statrup folder and give admin rights. works silently. Shows you current and average upload/download speeds, account usage display.

Dex wrote:On my router you can set such things has that, for each PC on the network.

Which router is that?

Belkin F5D7231UK4 plus