Create a monthly quota for network usage in PFSenese

[Shammikit]

Hello and Merry Christmas. I want to setup a solution using PFSense for splitting my internet quota between me and my dad. We got a 90gb connection and I want to split this among 4 devices (My phone, my laptop. dads phone, dads laptop). Thats about 22.5gb for each device per month and when a device had used up all the data assigned to it I want to stop it from being able to get online. I want this restriction to be applied during peak hours only (8AM till Midnight). For offpeak hours I would like to allow the devices to use only 10gb of data and when a devices uses that up, I want it to stop getting online. I have already setup PFsense and got it running, would like to know what options I can try to achieve what I need. I have already done a bit of research and so far all I have seen is people recommending to setup a Captive portal. I did see it having an option to set a data limit, but i think that applies to the entire interface selected and not per device like the way I want and I did not see any way of specifying times as I wanted. Looking forward to hear ur suggestions. Thanks.

 

[Master Disaster]

Quality of Service or QoS but I'm not sure if it supports exactly what you want.

[Jarsky]

I don't think you can do that in pfSense. 

It does have a bandwidth shaper, so you could set static IP's and then limit the devices in speed. If you limit it to say 2Mbit then it will force streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, etc...to drop in quality which will save you bandwidth. pfSense also has a Squid package, so you could setup caching which should help with the bandwidth usage as well. 

 

Capitve Portal is generally a good way to limit usage by user. 

 

But with only 2 of you using it, it seems like more of a behavioral change you need more than setting up hard limits. Goodluck with the setup you're after

[Shammikit]

12 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Quality of Service or QoS but I'm not sure if it supports exactly what you want.

QoS in PFsense is Traffic shaper right? If so in traffic shaper I did not see any option to setup a data limit. There were options to set bandwidth which I believe is the network speeds, that is not my requirement.  

[Master Disaster]

4 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

QoS in PFsense is Traffic shaper right? If so in traffic shaper I did not see any option to setup a data limit. There were options to set bandwidth which I believe is the network speeds, that is not my requirement.  

Windows 10 has exactly what you need built right into it.

 

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-monitor-and-control-data-usage-windows-10-april-2018-update

[Shammikit]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Windows 10 has exactly what you need built right into it.

 

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-monitor-and-control-data-usage-windows-10-april-2018-update

would like to set it up at a router level for some centralized control and would like to make it a learning experience. Plus I want to have these controls for mobile device too. 

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, Shammikit said:

would like to set it up at a router level for some centralized control and would like to make it a learning experience. Plus I want to have these controls for mobile device too. 

I'd guess the only way you'd ever get anything like this built into a router would be if you bought enterprise level equipment which would be insanely expensive. The kind of gear they would use in a retail setting designed for hundreds of simultaneous users.