[isf-wifidog] Bandwidth quotas + user reminder

[Mina Naguib]

Hey everyone

The first part of this email is for the wifidog team, the second for 
all volunteers:


Part 1:

I'd like to start working on bandwidth limiting/throttling.

For that, I'd like to add 2 new fields to the nodes table:
MaxMonthlyIncoming
MaxMonthlyOutgoing

which will get filled as per the package/agreement of each hotspot with 
their ISP.

My idea involves a "throttle in=x, out=y" parameter that the wifidog 
server will tell the wifidog client upon a user login.  The value for X 
and Y will be calculated from a formula I have not created yet, but 
will involve:
1. the user's previous bandwidth history (low/regular/hungry/abuser)
2. The hotspot's definitions in the 2 above fields
3. The hotspot's total bandwidth for the month
4. The hotspot's average # of unique users, visits, and traffic over 
the past P months
5. Probably more, but I have not thought about it thoroughly yet

Unless anyone disagrees, could one of the people with CVS access to the 
schema add the new fields and let me know ?  I'd add them myself in the 
db, but I wanted to run it by everyone first and I have done nothing 
server-side before so I did not want to intrude.

Once the fields are created I'll try to fill them, then start playing 
with the forumula until I get something that looks decent .


Part 2:

On a tangent thought, could we add something like this on the auth 
server's login/portal screens:
"Please browse responsibly!  Bandwidth is never free.  Check with the 
owner of this hotspot first before sending/receiving large amounts of 
data."

The wording can be butchered as much as you like, but I don't think 
it's fair to blame users for abusing the system (such as Kafein's 
situation) if we've never informed them of what's acceptable and what's 
not.