well, it's not capped here in Israel I mostly tech-support people here, and some in North America and Russia. Thats how I know about Russia

No i'm not a hacker but of course there is no way you could tell. It make's no diffrence im still the one pulling on the short side of the string.

I cant download more than 1gb per month althougth we agreed upon 1.5gb(cap per month). I wouldn't have came here if i didn't confronted the administrator already about this matter.

The administrator's router is dening me all of the gb i paid for. The problem is not with the IP but with the administrator's router.

If the matter can not be resolved ill be forced to sue the administrator - wich is going to cost me more than the 0.5gb he is stealing. Either way i lose. I came here seeking a better solution.

If you have physical access to the router, you can change the settings by first resetting the password. Otherwise it's SOL for you, sorry.

correct me if I'm wrong, but a simple cheap router can't have traffic accounting features, and probably there is a pc-based proxy before the router. IMHO

The word "router" in the context of IT does not actually mean a small little device; in fact a PC could function as a router, too. Thanks for pointing that out.

There's a few of possibilities:

• Like you mentioned, there might be another machine before the router that limits traffic.
• The router actually limits the traffic, but the router happens to be a PC and not a small device.
• The router is using special firmware, such as Linksys (which happens to have open-sourced firmware).

In pretty well every case, it's possible to break in if you actually have physical access. However, you'd have to be a real hacker to access these machines remotely.

I'm not going to offer any suggestions, in fact I wonder why I'm even posting in this thread. Good bye.

actually I'm pretty interested in this thread, since I have a problem of my own with a locked down device.
My company uses a Checkpoint NG based site-to-site VPN with one of the larger branches abroad, and through that VPN link our VOIP boxes work as well. Problem is, the previous admin programmed those boxes, and forgot the password. Everything is working just fine now, but if I have to add extensions or do anything else, I have no access to the VOIP adminpanel. And I really don't want to reset it - too much work re-creating all the previous settings.

Simple dictionary scans gave me nothing, and I don't want to bruteforce the thing - it has to work, and I don't want it to overload and crash.

Im sure there is a way to acces it but the question is how.(without reseting)

yo, is there a way/program to see how many GB you had downloaded and how many of your dowload cap is stlill avalible? (Freeware?)

it's built into windows, if you're not too picky

that only tells you how many packets, doesnt it?