Transfer Cap Additions; Stop Downloads Only, Revert at Midnight, etc

[ziraya]

To kick things off, I have Comcast, which means I have a 250GB per month limit; but I also happen to have good Comcast ranging from 10/1 to 16/4 so I could easily blow that in a week if I felt like it and picked the right torrents. Right now my main means of control is a complicated excel spreadsheet and data out of DD-WRT, and I think these few things would make my, and the lives of similarly limited people a lot simpler.

1. Stop Downloads Only; or at least run them on separate limits

My first month of tracking my usage I did a total of 480~GB combined, so Comcast has to be running separate meters for uploads and downloads, I use a number of private trackers that keep an eye on my ratio to make sure I'm not hurting the community, and my upload capacity generally keeps my uploads in check by itself, so it'd be a big help if uploads kept going.

2. Revert Transfer Cap Settings At Midnight

250GB/month works out roughly to 8GB/day, but I set my cap to 4 or 5 just to be safe then later that night jump it up to make use of what my household didn't, but uTorrent will easily use up 8GB before I wake up in the morning, so it'd be real nice if I could tell it the limit is 8GB until midnight, then go back to 5GB.

3. Cascading Caps (or whatever you want to call it)

Basically I'd like to be able to set more than one limit, 250GB per month and however many per day, other people could probably figure out more complicated systems but that's their prerogative. I might push the boundaries of my daily limit because I can just download more tomorrow, but if I go over the 250GB/month twice Comcast will close my account.

4. External Transfer Data

I have a router with DD-WRT on it, and DD keeps track of transfer data with the option to back it up through a file available through http(s)://192.168.x.x/traffdata.bak, it looks something like this:

TRAFF-DATA
traff-02-2010=0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 11924:2908 3619:2975 20416:7755 2001:5272 4683:8671 1482:6295 29275:3912 8895:1481 8821:2142 1900:3355 0:0 [0:0]
traff-03-2010=864:8927 2120:8922 1233:8980 2095:8731 1943:927 17490:3284 20751:8512 14391:8554 11577:5283 15257:8546 4985:855 493:89 5422:2165 5054:3190 628:3055 3556:961 337:750 294:69 8687:899 26558:3320 15630:2585 8471:859 8351:3635 9955:1616 9933:2237 3840:6955 5223:3293 6196:7948 5612:1224 11369:2872 22244:5239 0:0 [0:0]
traff-04-2010=9018:2192 7824:1688 8744:1313 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 0:0 [25586:5193] 0:0 [0:0]

I suspect other router firmwares offer similar services but I have no experience with them.

This is a record of all the traffic going out of my network, since I have multiple computers, servers and family, as well as enough internet using processes on my own computer to pull between 700MB and 1500MB per day I have to keep track of all this very closely to make sure I don't go over because my dad started watching Hulu; If uTorrent kept track of that it would make my efforts half as difficult easily.

Well, thank you for reading all this, hope there's support

[DreadWingKnight]

More advanced transfer cap rules are previously requested.

[ziraya]

these ones specifically?

[DreadWingKnight]

Yes.