Bandwidth Shaping

jasgot · Joined: 12 Jul 2011 Posts: 5 Location: Michigan

Do you have the ability to control the usage of a client? ie; if they are streaming video for hours and hours, can FirstSpot automatically reduce their bandwidth to discourage using too much of the system?

Also, can firstspot control the number of e-mails, or the SMTP traffic? I don't like people using my WiFi systems to send spam!! Smile

Thank you.

alan · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 4435

1) Yes, you can use Bandwidth Throttling which basically set the maximum usage of individual user. Alternatively, you can use our Restricted Account user attribute. FirstSpot will slow down a user if his Access Minutes or Quota has been used up . Refer to chapter 3 of firstspot_guide.pdf for details.

2) For email, you enable our SMTP Roaming feature and use the "Maximum Recipients Per Mail" parameter to restrict email sending. Please check out chapter 3 of firstspot_guide.pdf for more information.
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