On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 23:30 -0500, Josh Luthman wrote: > It doesn't make sense to simply disallow it - offer a bandwidth plan > that makes you both happy. If you can't resolve it then he has > another ISP. Let them deal with the problem. > > If he pays for 1 meg and does it all the time we both know that's the > kind of customer that kills your profit and therefor your business. > You and I are WISPs to make money and serve the area - this can't be > done when someone is paying 25/mo and ruining it for everyone.
There are ways to accomplish the "best of both worlds" here. My new QOS approach allows you to permit the traffic, even if you limit it's impact by setting a speed limit, and still allow good speeds for other users. One thing that you cannot fix with QOS is the reality that torrents are very high packet rates (usually) and (also usually) not very high bandwidth per connection. My approach, still, is to allow it, but set limits on it's impact on the network. Give it a small amount of bandwidth that is shared by other users with the same type of network utilization and let them have at it. All in all, though, I agree with Josh. The 5-10% of abusers (most cases, it's not even that many) are not worth what they pay. However, it will get to a point where that number goes to 20-30% when certain services (like the streaming video) become more popular. When that happens, it's not a good business decision to simply drop the traffic and lose 20% of your business. Thinking of these things makes me happy I'm no longer an ISP. I really do think that you'll find that the QOS system I've developed will be very helpful, though. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
