Looking to cap bandwidth per member, per day
 

What is a good way to do this? I already have multiple IP login protection and looking for some of the more popular ways to prevent the member name from exceeding a set GB transfer in a 24 hour period.

Thanks

Don't charge people for membership? If you charge people and cap their bandwidth, then... ooo... yeah. Ok.

Go ahead with that plan. Its always worked out well in the past.

Bandwith is cheap getting new members is not

Still looking. Something is amiss, or my password sharing prevention is not working.

350 gigs, mostly 1 user, nah... that's not normal on a streaming website.

I've never used it but you might look more into this and see if it does what you need.

http://sysdesign.pl/mod_cband/

capping paying customers? thankfully netflix doesnt do this to me

netflix doesnt but your isp does probably

What's the site?

I think StrongBox by Raymor might be able to help.

In which country? You pay, you download. You want to download more? You pay more.

Not like it used to be, but it is what it is.

Best not to cap a paying user, thats just annoying, and they can goto a tube for free and not get capped. If they used 350 gigs maybe your password sharing is not working, see if you can fix that before losing a member :)

Throttlebox is for doing INTELLIGENT control of bandwidth and ripping. For example, Throttlebox knows the difference between pics and videos and applies appropriate controls for each.

Sent you an email a little bit ago :thumbsup

I mean 350 gigs in a month is like what 2 megabit?
That should cost you less than the actual membership
I really think you are trying to save money on the wrong thing here

:2 cents:

If you do want to go through with this, track download counts per user as that will give you more insight about what is happening

That is a terrible idea. That guy could forget to keep using his membership and rebill for months. Even if he keeps using it, the bandwidth shouldn't cost you as much as he's paying. Leave the guy alone.

Maybe you could put some upsells and other ads in the member area for users who go crazy using bandwidth? Or switch them to using cheaper bandwidth? Never sacrifice members for using BW unless it's a lot more than that !!!

You can at _least_ look and see for _sure_ it was all done from one IP .. right?

Apache can also limit the number of simultaneous downloads.

I had the same problem when someone would hit my feeds for a couple of hundred gig in less than 24 hours. If you are paying for video feeds and some dude hits you for that kind of bandwidth useage you sure as hell ain't recovering the cost from his membership any time soon.

That is a good idea.

That's not the same as 350gb in a month though

Yeah Throttlebox tracks counts and bandwidth. Bandwidth is one said of it. The other side of it is, do you think the guy downloading 350 GB overnight is jacking off 300 hours a day, or posting those hundreds of vids to all the tubes? I'd rather not have him posting 350GB of MY content on the tubes, so I don't see any reason he needs to download that much overnight.

I wonder if Netflix will really let you download a hundred full length films in one night? Ever tried it? Done right, the controls would never be seen by normal customers. Only the people totally abusing the system see their downloads slowed.

350 gig was just today :(

For the love of christ disable that account NOW

Do you have scrapers and bad bots blocked in your .htaccess ?

i've changed the username that I thought was the problem. It has stopped the leak on BW.

The fix is coming shortly.

Mine doesn't with the package that I have. I'm on a 20mbps down/1mbps up package and I'm uncapped. If I upgrade to the 40/2 or 100/5 package then I would have a cap, but I'm happy with my 20/1 uncapped internet.