[Technical] Re: Inernet charging application and student quotas

[anton]

Hi Wayne, I am at Hillcrest Christian College and we use getbusi, it 
works well.  Check out their website and see if it is what you want.
Regards
:)
Anton Yoxon
ICT Teacher/manager/IT coordinator/ Reports clown as well as sometimes 
technician

Wayne Hewett wrote:
> Greetings all
>  
> Until recently, we have been using an application called SONAR to help 
> cache,moderate,filter and monitor student broadband and internet usage.
>  
> Last year because of budgetry issues and the need to upgarade our 
> hardware, we had to let the system go. As well as an excellent and 
> flexible filter environment, it had real time byte by byte monitoring 
> of individual internet usage.
>  
> Gaia does not seem to do this. We have it at the lowest time setting 
> for review, but students are still over running what they think they 
> owe in download time. If they have money "in the bank" before they 
> begin downloading a file, they can overrun their allotted inernet amount.
>  
> Does anyone have a solution? Are there alernatives out there that 
> monitor real time inernet usage?
>  
> We are quite happy with Gaia's ability to monitor printing costs.
>  
> Wayne Hewett
> ICT Chappie a Rosebud Secondary
>  

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