[ELECTRON] charges due to excess usage of Electron Club broadband

[Martin McGrath]

I'll check out the router and firmware when I pop in on Tuesday.
OpenWRT/DDwrt provide the ability to cap usage based on bandwidth used,
other ways to lock the device down, as well as making the usage stats
available online (securely) and allowing remote administration.

If the hardware is supported this may be something worth doing, though I'm
not sure who'd make that decision :)

Cheers

Martin

On 19 December 2010 12:18, Clive Mitchell <bigclive1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's odd to even find a broadband package with a cap these days.  You
> could ask the provider to stop the service as soon as the cap is
> reached instead of letting it roll on at expense.
>
> My guess is that either your WEP password has been cracked (not hard)
> or that more likely someone in the vicinity has simply asked and been
> given the password, then passed it onto friends who might be using the
> WiFi in nearby buildings using a suitable antenna.
>
> Making sure it's on WAP2 and changing the password on a reasonably
> regular basis might be a good idea.
>
> On 19 December 2010 11:54, Simon Yuill <simon at lipparosa.org> wrote:
> > I will phone our providers on Monday to check there are not more charges.
> > Hopefully it is just a one-off thing.
> >
> > Also changing wifi password is a good idea and checking over current
> > machine setups, etc.
>
>
>
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> Clive Mitchell
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