Router Advice
 

Hi guys I'm after some advice if anyone can help.

Situation:
I'm in a shared house where I have Internet (adsl) installed in my room. We are all in and out with work etc and my housemates want the share the internet and cost.

Requirement:
I want to set it up in a similar fashion to an internet cafe type situation where users can buy a month at a time that way I can keep track of the cost and not get stiffed on the bill. I'd like it to be router led if possible so I can install it and then when i'm away it can run without me needing a pc up and running and so if it goes wrong the router can be reset in my absence.

Hope that makes sense

Thanks

Re: Router Advice
 

That sounds like an unnecessarily complicated way of going round things. Just buy a router, set it up with WEP encryption and MAC filtering so the only people who can use it are those who you have given the password to, and who have given you their ethernet card's MAC.

Divide the cost of your internet service by the number of people using it (yourself and whoever else). Don't get into the bother of charging them one month on, one month off - if they want a share of a domestic internet connection then they should be prepared to pay a portion of the true cost of that connection always being there when they want it.

If they want internet cafe-style access, tell them to buy a laptop and spend the evening in your local Starbucks. :p:

Re: Router Advice
 

If you get a router with DD-WRT I think there is a module that you can add that does sharing I think.
Ill dig out the name

This may be it..
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Chillispot

GM

Re: Router Advice
 

Thats the kind of thing I am after thanks Grandmaster.