Matthew's Journal

We have an open wireless access point, which allows anyone to get to the outside world (only some ports, most especially not SMTP), as a matter of policy (such things are useful, IMO, and so running one is a good thing).

Sadly, it seems someone (presumably one of the near neighbours), which I guess means next-door in the semi (as the other way is away currently) is making extensive use of our wireless during the chargable period - we've used 1.38G chargable this month, compared to an average of about 570M for the previous 3 months. I don't think we want to start paying extra for others to use our wireless internet.

I can see a few options:
i) turn the wireless off during chargable hours (except on days when someone is working at home)
ii) rate-limit the wireless to 512K/s (with some baroque tc runes?) during charging hours
iii) redirect all web-traffic to a stunt webserver that puts up a page saying "you're running up our bandwidth costs - please email emperor if you want to carry on doing this"
iv) assume my guess is right and go and talk to the neighbours

I'm not interested in playing games like redirecting them to goatse or inverting their images or any of that sort of thing.