The problem is Comcast has a 250GB/month bandwidth cap and unwatched, it looks like we'll easily exceed that amount in a month. Even after talking to the person responsible for said streaming and agreeing on a 2 hours/day "limit", we're trending to go over our 250GB/month with pretty much nobody else on any machine using any reasonable amount of bandwidth. As it is, we've pruned from 15GB/day down to 9GB/day usage, but that's still slightly too much being used. 70% of our cumulative bandwidth is being used by a single device and I'm trying to come up with a way from keeping this from being able to cause us to go over our limit.
I have a couple questions.
- Is there a way to have Astaro alert me when we've approached a sec cumulative monthly limit of data transferred? In other words, get a warning email sent to me when we say hit 200GB/month so I know to go talk to said person.
- Is there a way to limit the bandwidth to that one device easily such that Netflix isn't getting optimal bandwidth and our 250GB/month will stretch further?
- If that last one is possible, can it be triggered by certain conditions? Like say If 100GB has been transferred to that device in a month, throttle it to half speed or something?
If there are any other ideas you guys can think of to enforce this in an automated fashion (short of "go tell the boy to not stream so much!") I'd appreciate it. I'm suspecting QoS and/or bandwidth pools are a possibility but frankly I don't fully understand how to set them up or test that they're working properly.
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