[aklug] Re: large scale wireless question

On 10/19/2011 02:11 PM, Jeremy Austin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Bruce Hill <bruce@slackwarebox.com> wrote:
>> I'm nothing more than a novice at networking anyway (Arthur is tutoring me
>> through Networking Part I, II, and III so far), but this guy has problems.
>> He also has a letter from Comcast where someone had violated their terms
>> of service regarding privacy ... they used bittorent and downloaded "Conan
>> the Barbarian"? Some video I think. He's also having problems with
>> bandwidth sharing. His plan calls for 16MB down and 2MB up. If it's like
>> my 8/2 he doesn't get it. Comcast is reselling AT&T because there is no
>> fibre to this city yet.
>>
>
> Dunno what he can do about that. L7 filtering (kind of a big hammer for this
> job) will cut down on *some* of it, but as far as I know encrypted
> Bittorrent would slip right through that anyway. Traffic shaping (not sure
> if that's possible with the Comcast router he has) can sort of limit his
> risk, by turning unknown (i.e., illegit) traffic waay down, but that's
> expensive to implement.
>
>

L7.. my friend.. my enemy.. I wait for a good community based karma system for protocol
access.
---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Wed Oct 19 14:20:30 2011