Creating level of users could be beneficial, and it could be handled through the captive portal. There could be a "guest" level with minimal bandwidth allowances and restricted to limited lease time (that would be good for someone that is checking e-mail, etc.). The next users would be an un-registered user, which would allow for more a little more bandwidth, and allow to an upgrade to registered user after a grace period,. Finally registered user, who will get greater bandwidth and more relaxation to port restrictions. Again, all of this could be handled though portal.
A couple of days ago, some one made mentioned of who provided tech support to handle the mundane things like reset passwords, etc? Again, some of the basic support issues can be handled by through software at the basic level. K. On 3/22/07, Jason Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Mee wrote: > The tragedy of the commons ensures that this free wireless effort is > never a completely hassle free endeavor. Even on my street recently, > someone has been running bittorrent which is playing havoc with my > (wireless) voip connection ;-). > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons I just dealt with the same problem in my apartment building with my own connection. My solution was to make my wired connections high priority (TiVo), block all P2P for guests, limit bandwidth of guests connections but make sure that DNS and VOIP got high priorities for all guests. All unknown protocols (Layer 7 Filtering) got a very low priority. In that case, P2P just went away because downloading became too slow for even free. -- Jason Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
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