On 10.04.2013 18:11, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
It appears to me that QoS applies only to local addresses. I might
be
able to set it to reduce the data rates on iCloud but it would still
allow activity when nothing else is running but the Mac desktop.
If I understood correctly, traffic shaping you don't need at all, so
please drop this one.
Neither "WAN Access Restrictions" - http://*gateway*/Filters.asp will do
anything useful in your case.
I simply want to stop all iCloud activity [except for a
"free" period in
the wee hours of the morning].
Presently I have been letting it run from 23:59 to 04:00. It ran up 13GB
on each of two nights and almost 7GB last night. I guess it is satisfied
after downloading all that data and quit at 6675MB down and 681MB up [up
is much slower]. However left unattended it will suck up several GB in
the upload direction, it just takes longer. Both directions count
against my allocation.
Probably what you need is to block outgoing ports at certain times for
certain clients, if I correctly translated the above mentioned.
In the absence of better tools, you can look at these examples:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/CRON
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Iptables#Block_outgoing_SMTP_traffic...
I leave it to you to find which ports are in the game.
poma