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[poma]

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_except_from_specified_hosts
I leave it to you to find which ports are in the game.


poma