Bandwidth quotas are a powerful feature unique to gargoyle that allow you to set a maximum on the total amount of data transferred over your network, or to a specific set of IP addresses on your local network, or both. When the quota is reached, you can specify whether you want to completely cut off internet access, or whether you want to throttle the connection to a slow speed.
This option specifies the hosts to which this quota applies. The available options are:
The maximum amount of bandwidth that can be uploaded before the quota is reached. Max Upload, Max Download, and Max Total Up+Down cannot all be unlimited.
The maximum amount of bandwidth that can be downloaded before the quota is reached. Max Upload, Max Download, and Max Total Up+Down cannot all be unlimited.
The maximum total amount of bandwidth that can be used before the quota is reached. Max Upload, Max Download, and Max Total Up+Down cannot all be unlimited.
Whether the quota resets to zero usage every hour, every day, every week or every month.
The day of the month (or week, if quota resets weekly) that the quota should reset.
The hour of the day the quota should reset.
The times of the day/week when the quota is active. By default, the quota is always active.
This option specifies what to happen when quota is exceeded. By default, when quota is reached, the router will Shut Down all Internet Access. Alternately, you can choose to Throttle Bandwidth when the quota is reached. If you choose to throttle bandwidth two more controls will become visible, so you can specify the maximum upload/download speed when the quota is exceeded.