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docs:guide-user:network:wan:wwan:bandwith_caps_gb_quota [2018/06/04 22:20] – Section heading levels corrected tmomasdocs: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'' 
 + 
 +===== 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 ===== ===== wrtbwmon tool =====
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