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docs:guide-user:network:wan:wwan:bandwith_caps_gb_quota [2018/05/27 10:53] – created bobafetthotmaildocs:guide-user:network:wan:wwan:bandwith_caps_gb_quota [2018/10/25 19:07] – [Dealing with monthly GB quotas] mdvthu
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-==== Dealing with monthly GB quotas ====+====== Dealing with monthly GB quotas ======
  
-Most 3G and 4G/LTE contracts have a monthly quota of GBs you can upload/download. In many cases they will charge extra for any network activity after the monthly GB quota was used.+Most mobile contracts have a monthly data quota, limiting the amount you can download over the connection without incurring additional charges.
  
-There are few ways of controlling this on an OpenWrt router.+OpenWRT has bandwidth monitoring tool available in the standard repository called ''nlbwmon''
  
-==== wrtbwmon tool ====+===== Installation instructions ===== 
 + 
 +''opkg update 
 +opkg install luci-app-nlbwmon'' 
 + 
 +You will the have access to an additional tab on the web interface with a detailed breakdown of bandwidth utilization: ''Bandwidth Monitor'' 
 + 
 +===== wrtbwmon tool =====
  
 [[https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon|Github page]] [[https://github.com/pyrovski/wrtbwmon|Github page]]
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-==== LuCi module for wrtbwmon ====+===== LuCi module for wrtbwmon =====
  
 [[https://github.com/Kiougar/luci-wrtbwmon|Github page ]] [[https://github.com/Kiougar/luci-wrtbwmon|Github page ]]
  
-==== A custom script ====+===== A custom script =====
  
 The system keeps track of basic information already, if all you need is an overall consumption number, just point your script (or chronjob) to read these files. (change **br-lan** below with the name of your modem's interface if you want to look only at bandwith used for Internet, and not just for data exchange between your own devices in the LAN) The system keeps track of basic information already, if all you need is an overall consumption number, just point your script (or chronjob) to read these files. (change **br-lan** below with the name of your modem's interface if you want to look only at bandwith used for Internet, and not just for data exchange between your own devices in the LAN)
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