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Ok, let's add some magic to your everyday dial-up newtworking!
Example 1
Let's first create a simple limit of money. Suppose that you want to confine yourself within $5 spent to Internet per day. There are no any ISP limitations or something like this, just the family budget's requirement.
- In a connection properties window click the "Connection limits" tab and then "Add new". Click "Next".
- Enter the "$5 money limit" as the name of a limit. Click "Next".
- Our limit will spread to all tariffs, so just click "Next".
- We want our limit to reset at the end of it's active period, i.e. one day, so choose "Reset at the end of period". Do not check the "Reset at the disconnect". Click "Next".
- Since our limit is a limit of money, choose the appropriate option and go to the next page of this Wizard.
- Now we should enter an amount of money we are ready to spend during some period of time. The amount of money is $5. The period is one day. Enter the $5 to the corresponding field and choose the "day" from the dropdown list. All right, click "Next".
- Choose "Yes" and click "Next".
- No we'll specify the minimal value of the remainder of money. Generally speaking this value should depend on plenty of various factors, first of all on the cost of a single minute (or second) your ISP have established. But this is only an example, so we will count that $0.5 will be enough for the reserve. Enter $0.5 to the money field. Click "Next".
- This page allows you to set up actions to be performed when this limit will be close to zero (or if exactly, less than or equal to the value specified just now). Check "Show the warning message". Go next.
- Now we will agjust the view of this warning message. Leave all colors as they are. Increase the "Duration of the showing" by three. Click the "Test" button to see how it will look. Stop the test by clicking "Stop". Click the "Next" button.
- Finish the Wizard to add this limit to the limits list.
Example 2
In the tariffs examples section we created the tariff with the charge for the excess of traffic limit of 500Mb per month. We called this tariff "Traffic". During this tariff creation Dialer Queen automatically created one limit to count the additional charge. Now we will create one more limit for this tariff, it will help us to avoid unwanted situation of the traffic quota excess. Limit is 500Mb per month for incoming traffic.
- Start the Wizard using "Add new".
- Enter the "500Mb traffic limit" as the name of a limit. Click "Next".
- We don't need our limit to spread to all tariffs we have. It should act only with "Traffic". So, check "This limit should be applied to the checked tariffs" then set a check opposite our "Traffic" tariff. Click "Next".
- Limit will reset upon period's ending. Go next.
- Choose the "limit of traffic" option and go to the next page.
- Turn on the "Incoming traffic limitation" and enter the value of 500 to the megabytes field. From the dropdown list you should choose...yes, you guess right, you should choose "month". Click "Next".
- Skip two pages about outgoing and total traffic. On the "React upon limit's ending" page answer "Yes" and go next.
- Enter the 20480 to the traffic remainder field. This will be the 20 kilobytes reserve. Click the "Next" button one more time.
- As an actions we'll choose disconnect and warning message. Under the disconnect option choose "Disconnect only when limit's remainder will become zero" - we will hang up only if our traffic quota is completely off. Click "Next".
- Change the background color to the crimson (it is situated at the top left corner of the palette). Change the duration of the showing to 5 seconds. Change the font style to bold and it's size to 10. Click "Test". Very well, this warning is very hard to be ignored! Click the "Stop" button and finish the Wizard.
- Just for a practice, you may add one more limit to the "Traffic" tariff that will warn us 100 kilobytes prior to the traffic limit's ending. Of course, the warning message in this case should be more democratic.
Example 3
This example will show how to create warning limits. Actually, warning limits are not limits at all, because they don't confine anything, thay just warn. But you can use the flexible limits mechanism to get such handy and useful feature as a warning as well. Just for training we'll create a warning that will play a sound every tenth minutes we'll spend online.
- Start the Wizard using "Add new".
- Enter the "10 min warning" as the name of a limit. Click "Next".
- Skip the tariff dependencies page.
- This limit should be reset upon limit's ending, i.e. when 10 minutes will be out. Additionally, if we disconnect limit should be reset too, because if we reconnect it must count 10 minutes limit from the beginning, not from that value it had before disconnection.
- Set a check near the "Limit of time".
- Enter 10 minutes as a value of limit. Note that periods dropdown list is now disabled indicating it's useless in this case.
- Answer "Yes" on "React upon limit's ending?" and go next.
- We don't need to reserve any remainder of time in our case, so just click "Next".
- Enable the "Play sound" option and click "Browse". Choose any sound file. This file must have the "WAV" type. You can click "Play" to evaluate the sound. Click "Next" when you're done.
- Finish the Wizard.
- You may create the same warning limits for traffic or for money as well.
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