In my opinion from working with large "open" network. P2P shouldn't be immediately classify as the "bad guy" or the "abusive" user because I strongly believe that is what the recording industry and alike want everyone to think. Bittorrent or what not they are just a service, with a service you can do what ever that you needed to do on it. You can not immediately label DVD-R as a privacy device or tape, because they are just a tool, a meer tool. What people do with it is up to them. Until you can exactly identify the purpose of such usage, it's in my opinion that it's bias to immediately lock down the MAC or just disconnection him/her. Going down the path of labeling an "abusive" user because he using p2p is an ever ending unsolvable problem, the RIAA have been trying to do this and we will see where it will end. The RIAA back in the want to make tape illegal because it can use to copy music. It's just a false generalization.
Rather, promoting the classifiable traffic that you are interested in serving is a much better approach. With that in mind, if no one is using the connection, why is it so bad that some users are taking up all the bandwidth? I do not believe that you pay less for your connection because it's not in use is it? -bn On 3/22/07, Matt Fanady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For whatever reason, I have never had any problem with users abusing my node, which has been up since late 2002. Both when I lived in Ocean Beach, and now that I live in North Park, and even here in NP, with a pretty high population density, I get several users, many regulars, but have yet to have a single problem with people abusing the system (at least not abuse via excessive p2p traffic). Not to diminish your problem at all Steve, I just find it interesting. -M@ 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 > _______________________________________________ SoCalFreeNet.org General Discussion List To unsubscribe, please visit: http://socalfreenet.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_socalfreenet.org
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