Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Butch Evans
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Tom DeReggi wrote: Interesting arcticle. Certainly it was. It was well written BS! My belief is that any ISP has the right to control usage of their network. But this arcticle was most interesting because it was addressing what are the ethical ways to accomplish that.

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Butch Evans
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Tom DeReggi wrote: What they are doing here is sending a message that if you Buy Comcast you get performance, if you buy from our competitors, you Isn't that an ideal public perception? I mean, if I could get people to understand that one reason my network is better than

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Butch Evans
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Mike Hammett wrote: Mikrotik can control raw connections as well, but UDP is not connection based. Absolutely correct. However, the linux iptables connection tracking does not care if it is UDP or TCP. -- Butch Evans Network Engineering and Security Consulting 573-276-

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Butch Evans
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, George Rogato wrote: A couple names that came up was Imagestream, who says they can control the amount of connections to help control p2p. Jeff will step in and correct me if I'm wrong. You are correct. Mikrotik can do the same. ANY Linux based system can limit connect

Re: [SPAM] [WISPA] getting a Tranzeo TR5A back to defaults

2007-10-19 Thread fwatts
Call Tranzeo support and give them the Mac Address and they will give you a password to get back in. Frank Brightlan LLC - Original Message - From: "Leon D. Zetekoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:46 PM Subject: [SPAM] [WISPA] getting a Tra

Re: [WISPA] getting a Tranzeo TR5A back to defaults

2007-10-19 Thread D. Ryan Spott
You "find" them using the CPE locator from support.tranzeo.com Once you are able to get a username/password prompt via a web- interface you call Tranzeo with the MAC address. They give you a backdoor password and away you go. ryan On Oct 19, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Leon D. Zetekoff wrote: I've

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
Mikrotik can control raw connections as well, but UDP is not connection based. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 8:30 PM Sub

[WISPA] getting a Tranzeo TR5A back to defaults

2007-10-19 Thread Leon D. Zetekoff
I've had these in storage for awhile and I misplaced both my standard and recovery userids and passwords. Does anyone know how to get these back to factory defaults or is there a backdoor to get in? Thanks, Leon -- *Leon Zetekoff* Proprietor *Work:* 484-335-9920 *Mobile:* 610-223-8642 *Fa

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread George Rogato
Funny this came up today in the paper. At this last weeks ISPCON, one of the hot finds us wisps were actively looking for on the tradeshow floor was bandwidth management appliance that we can use to control encrypted torrents and at the same time give the user high bandwidth for the other in

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
What gets you peers is a balanced ratio. If it exceeds a certain ratio, whomever is the one that initiates the transaction is usually the one that pays. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
In all fairness... This thread is not about whether it is right or wrong to block p2p. We probably all agree how harmful p2p traffic can be. Its essential to try and block it. The unsure part is What is an ethical way to block it. An ISP may have the right to define what goes accross its ne

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
because we control the majority market, and we won't let you play with our clients in a favorable manner. My mistake, "majority Market" was not the right word. Almost "Largest percentage of the market" might be more appropriate. My understanding is that Comcast has the second largest share of

[WISPA] Friday Fun.

2007-10-19 Thread D. Ryan Spott
This week started out as a long one but evened out toward the end… Here are some fun pics to share: 1. How do we get to the tower again? I forget what road to follow? I wish all tower roads were labeled this well! http://www.irongoat.net/friday/WhatRoadToTheTower.jpg This road is

[WISPA] Friday Fun.

2007-10-19 Thread D. Ryan Spott
This week started out as a long one but evened out toward the end. Here are some fun pics to share: 1. How do we get to the tower again? I forget what road to follow? I wish all tower roads were labeled this well! http://www.irongoat.net/friday/WhatRoadToTheTower.jpg This road is no

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Scottie Arnett
I must say, I misworded my statements. We allow it, but throttle and shape it. If they fixed the problems with it, I would let it go full throttle should have been how I worded it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Frid

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Matt
> from a legal standpoint. Explaining it in technical terms (all these > connections kills the tower and annoys other users) is safer, and as a > bonus is completely true. It's actually more effective on many of my > customers, who suddenly realize that the folks being affected by their > selfish p

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread David E. Smith
Scottie Arnett wrote: Forgot to mention...if BT clients would not come with deafult connections set at 500 to 1000, I might allow it to. That is where it kills our equipment...the connections, not the bandwidth. Concur, and THAT is why I limit p2p traffic on my network. Frankly, I couldn't ca

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Travis Johnson
Mikrotik just released a new update today with "improved warez/ares p2p protocol matching". Travis Microserv Matt wrote: 25 ?! You're lucky. If I stop my Mikrotik queues based on all-p2p matching via firewall mangles, the network will come to a stop because usage will go to 99%.

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Travis Johnson
I was talking on my backbone to my upstreams... which is currently running at 105Mbps incoming x 45Mbps outgoing. 25% of the incoming is p2p if I turn off my queues. I don't see how 99% of your traffic could be p2p, because people will still be surfing and checking email, etc. which will have t

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Scottie Arnett
Forgot to mention...if BT clients would not come with deafult connections set at 500 to 1000, I might allow it to. That is where it kills our equipment...the connections, not the bandwidth. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E. Smith S

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Matt
> 25 ?! You're lucky. If I stop my Mikrotik queues based on all-p2p > matching via firewall mangles, the network > > will come to a stop because usage will go to 99%. > > > > I limit p2p down & uploads to 1kbps. Sue me. My experience anymore is Mikrotik cannot do a very good job at catching it

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Scottie Arnett
I can understand what you are saying, it BT is an efficient way to send data. The problem lies in the 99.998% of what is transferred is illegal files that are copyrighted. If BT could take care of that problem, I might allow it on my network. For now, I use ftp. -Original Message- From:

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
Except for the growing number of perfectly legal things available via P2P systems (Linux discs, updates for Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft which surpassed 9 million subscribers in July, Wikipedia CD, OpenOffice, I've heard that Steam's 13 million users might be adopting P2P).

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
Except for the growing number of perfectly legal things available via P2P systems (Linux discs, updates for Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft which surpassed 9 million subscribers in July, Wikipedia CD, OpenOffice, I've heard that Steam's 13 million users might be adopting P2P).

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread David E. Smith
Scottie Arnett wrote: In my opinion, if they have something legit to transfer, they can setup and use ftp. It works faster anyways IMHO. You've obviously never been on a well-seeded torrent. :) Seriously, plug yourself into your NOC right after a "big" Linux release (the new version of Ubunt

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Scottie Arnett
In my opinion, if they have something legit to transfer, they can setup and use ftp. It works faster anyways IMHO. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Rick Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:28 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: RE: [WIS

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Smith, Rick
25 ?! You're lucky. If I stop my Mikrotik queues based on all-p2p matching via firewall mangles, the network will come to a stop because usage will go to 99%. I limit p2p down & uploads to 1kbps. Sue me. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Travis Johnson
I would have to agree. They did it to save costs, which includes bandwidth, transport, equipment upgrades, etc. If I run our network wide open (which I do from 6:00PM to 7:00AM), we see p2p traffic using 25% of our total bandwidth. Travis Microserv David E. Smith wrote: On Fri, October 19,

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, October 19, 2007 2:24 pm, Tom DeReggi wrote: > Yeah right... It has nothing to do with saving Interconnect dollars. > Comcast's download ratios are already way higher than upload even with > BitTorrent full force, and probably are already getting paid for the > peering relationships if any

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
h" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P CHUCK PROFITO wrote: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCASQ80.html Comcast has been doing this for a few months, actuall

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Luke Pack
x27;WISPA General List'" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:17 PM Subject: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCASQ80.html Chuck Profito 209-988-7388 CV-ACCESS, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing High Speed Broadband to Rural Central Californi

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
"CHUCK PROFITO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 1:17 PM Subject: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCASQ80.html Chuck Profito 209-988-7388 CV-ACCESS, INC [EMAI

Re: [WISPA] Tranzeo TR-FDD-32-GT

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
The Tranzeo FD product is a neat product, and a cost effective option for backhaul. But it does NOT have any hardware components in it that would assist it to perform better in Noise over others. It is straight math, based on the required SNR for basic OFDM that must be achieved. Combating Nois

[WISPA] OT: AlvarionCOMNET 2.0 is here

2007-10-19 Thread Patrick Leary
Hi folks, While we'll be sending a sponsored mail shortly with full details about the new and improved AlvarionCOMNET WISP cooperative program, I wanted to drop a note letting you know about the changes. * New minimum quarterly thresholds - We are adding a new and really low limit of only 10 CPE p

RE: [WISPA] Intrameta / BOSS

2007-10-19 Thread D. Ryan Spott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris R Efland Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 11:00 AM To: WISPA General List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WISPA] Intrameta / BOSS Ryan, I don't know if you were talking about USA Mobility's data center

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread David E. Smith
CHUCK PROFITO wrote: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCASQ80.html Comcast has been doing this for a few months, actually. By most accounts, the traffic is throttled at their network edges - i.e. two Comcast customers can trade files all they want, the throttling only kicks in

RE: [WISPA] Intrameta / BOSS

2007-10-19 Thread Kris R Efland
Ryan, I don't know if you were talking about USA Mobility's data centers our ours, but I can assure you that USA Mobility is not one of our customers, neither are MetroCall or Arch Paging. I can also attest that we have no tin foil (or vacuum tubes) in any of our data centers. :) An example of

[WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread CHUCK PROFITO
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071019/D8SCASQ80.html Chuck Profito 209-988-7388 CV-ACCESS, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing High Speed Broadband to Rural Central California ** Join us at the WISPA Reception

[WISPA] Tranzeo TR-FDD-32-GT

2007-10-19 Thread Don Annas
I wanted to see if anyone had experience with these Tranzeo full duplex links? We have a longer shot that we are looking to upgrade and it is in a very noisy area RF wise. I was reading a bit on the channel shields that you order with these Tranzeo units and wanted to know how well they actually