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

[Ben Dembroski]

If the router in question is my old netgear, I'm pretty sure it won't
support anything fun like DDwrt.

On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 12:29 +0000, Martin McGrath wrote:
> 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.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         --
>         Clive Mitchell
>         
>         
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