Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Sam Tetherow
Here is a link that does a decent job describing the Mikrotik implementation using burst-limit, burst-threshold and max-limit. Scroll down to the section labeled "Burst" (second to last section). http://www.mikrotik.org.pl/jakto.php?g=13&PHPSESSID=5193496d65073e909b1f130b2e234135 Sam Tetherow

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Sam Tetherow
reater than the inbound bw anyway. So it now looks prudent to me to have BOTH bw management built into the radios, AND at the head-end. Rich - Original Message - From: Jason To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandw

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Dennis Burgess - 2K Wireless
Mikrotik can do this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:27 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management List, Several times in the last few weeks the topic of bandw

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Peter R.
They aren't saying 10MB for $10. They are saying DSL for $10 -- most likely DSL Lite. It will probably be felt my the dial-up providers like NetZero, since the price is used to add subs. New subs added is the metric that Wall St. is watching. SBC learned that at $10 they can convert dial-up user

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread George Rogato
built into the radios, AND at the head-end. Rich - Original Message - From: Jason To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management From what I understand, there are many types of qdisc (HTB, CBQ, Prio, on an

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Rich Comroe
eater than the inbound bw anyway. So it now looks prudent to me to have BOTH bw management built into the radios, AND at the head-end. Rich - Original Message - From: Jason To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwi

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Jason
ove to hear if other radios have built-in bw management and what method is use for comparison (any Trango users who could possibly comment?). Rich From: Ryan Langseth To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:44 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Rich Comroe
neral List Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:44 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Rich Comroe wrote: > Thanks much. I love it when you talk technical! Sorry, couldn't > help it... > > No really, the devil is alw

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Rich Comroe
Ryan Langseth To: WISPA General List Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:44 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Rich Comroe wrote: > Thanks much. I love it when you talk technical! Sorry, couldn't > help it... > &g

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Jason
I do. I run a squid cache (that way filtering comes easy too). I get a hit rate of 40% (40% of requested items come from the cache), and this accounts for 20% of the bandwidth (the 40% are usually small graphics, etc). So I stretch my bandwidth by about 20%. Jason Peter R. wrote: Do any o

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181
uot;Blair Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management We sell mainly to residential users and to some small businesses. We are quite rural, and my cost for a T-1 is $45

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Tom DeReggi
;WISPA General List" Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management This will get harder as 4Q07 approaches and AT&T rolls out it's $10 DSL and $19.95 Naked DSL - as per merger concessions. There will be a ton of disqualifiers. Howev

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Peter R.
This will get harder as 4Q07 approaches and AT&T rolls out it's $10 DSL and $19.95 Naked DSL - as per merger concessions. There will be a ton of disqualifiers. However, this will effectively put many Residential ISPs in the NFL cities out of business. I don't understand the race to the bottom

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-25 Thread Peter R.
Do any of you use caching to save on bandwidth consumption? Blair Davis wrote: The other point is, that with a good mix of residential and business customers, and a little creative thinking, one can match their usage patterns to minimize ones peak bandwidth requirements while still provid

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Ryan Langseth
On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Rich Comroe wrote: Thanks much. I love it when you talk technical! Sorry, couldn't help it... No really, the devil is always in the details in these things. This is just the detail I was looking for. After I digest I hope I may send questions your way off

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Jason Wallace
That is exactly the issue I have. The system I need this for is an extremely rural retirement community, satellite-connected WISP with 1meg down 128k up and 266megs total per day limit (8gig spread over 30 days). Just one all night P2P session will cause the upstream provider to cut the connecti

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Comroe
will share what bw management algorithms they may have built-in. thanks again, Rich - Original Message - From: Patrick Leary To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:23 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management Rich, --- Here is the detail

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Travis Johnson wrote: That's not correct. About 5 years ago, we were paying $1,500 per T1 and selling T1 speed wireless for $250 per month. Seven to eight years ago we were paying $3,000 per T1 and selling wireless T1 for $250 per month. This is the entire ISP business mod

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Travis Johnson
OR, we could stop playing the Cable Co. and Telco "games" with their "up to 3meg" and "up to 7meg" connections for $34.95 and just start selling what they get. We started selling 512k, 1meg, 1.5meg and 2meg connections (up and down, guaranteed speed 24x7) about 3 years ago. It was the best thi

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Travis Johnson
Butch, That's not correct. About 5 years ago, we were paying $1,500 per T1 and selling T1 speed wireless for $250 per month. Seven to eight years ago we were paying $3,000 per T1 and selling wireless T1 for $250 per month. This is the entire ISP business model. Travis Microserv Butch Evans

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Mac Dearman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Vogel Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:12 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management I would suspect that the customer (as is the case in much of the world, not nec

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Patrick Leary
PA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management Matt, What an asinine comment! You sound like you ought to be giving bandwidth away with the pride and carefree attitude that you portrayed with such indignant comment. If the truth was known you aren't any different than

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Patrick Leary
esday, January 24, 2007 4:01 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management Fascinating. I only spoke of leaky bucket because that's practically a match to what Jason originally described to the list (and I happen to know of radios that have this algorithm intern

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Mac Dearman
AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management Have you thought about selling the customer a pipe that works for any and all traffic at the speed the customer signed up for as opposed to deciding for the customer? -Matt Jason wrote: > List, > >Several tim

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Have you thought that not everyone has the same kind of market that you do and that bandwidth management of this kind considerably improves the number of customers and quality of service that can be provided? Sheesh. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Matt Liotta wrote: Have you thought about selling

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
StarOS will handle this for you. Just use the "fb" rules. Works great! Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Jason wrote: List, Several times in the last few weeks the topic of bandwidth management has been discussed, but "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Lookin' For"... Here's what I'd like to do:

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Comroe
do some studying? Rich - Original Message - From: Patrick Leary To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 3:59 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management As usual Rich, you post material we all learn from. I've not much to add except to sa

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread KyWiFi LLC
uot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management We sell mainly to residential users and to some small businesses. We are quite rural, and my cost for a T-1 is $450 per month. My pending fiber

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Tom DeReggi
Bit Bucket bandwdith management can easilly be done with HTB on Linux. However, Bit Bucket bandwdith management can have undirable effects on business traffic. The last thing you want is a high paying business to complain about their performance or spotty inconsistent speed. More so important be

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Patrick Leary
Nice job sticking to your guns. Patrick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair Davis Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:22 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management We sell mainly to residential users

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Blair Davis
We sell mainly to residential users and to some small businesses. We are quite rural, and my cost for a T-1 is $450 per month. My pending fiber hookup is $1100 per month for 5Mbit. A bit ago, a business customer's new IT consultant complained that the 256Kbit committed rate for $60 a month w

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Patrick Leary
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:50 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management This thread should not hit a nerve, as I think it has. I've read a lot of your stuff, so I know you're a bright guy. You know that while telephone talk-time may not be metered

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread J. Vogel
I would suspect that the customer (as is the case in much of the world, not necessarily in the limited world you may operate in) does not want to, or in many case could not pay for such a pipe. In many areas of the US, especially rural, bandwidth is extremely expensive. Customers do not want to pay

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Comroe
ey only sell business service where throughput per user is sold with SLAs ... engineering to a high erlang per user, or equivalently described as a low oversubscription rate). regards, Rich - Original Message - From: Matt Liotta To: WISPA General List Sent: Wednesday, January 2

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Matt Liotta wrote: Have you thought about selling the customer a pipe that works for any and all traffic at the speed the customer signed up for as opposed to deciding for the customer? When your head dips below the cloud cover, you will realize that not everyone has thi

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Mike Ireton
I'm with you jason - the subject of bandwidth management is an important one, and the fact is that new applications (crapplications?!) are appearing all the time which are pushing the business model into a tight spot. We have competing forces - on the one hand, we purchase expensive dedicated b

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread CHUCK PROFITO
We haven't used them but they do have an impressive client list, here's the link http://netequalizer.com/indexgoo.php Chuck Profito 209-988-7388 CV-ACCESS, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing High Speed Broadband to Rural Central California -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailt

RE: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Brad Belton
...read my mind. Brad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:49 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management Have you thought about selling the customer a pipe

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Mike Pearson
I believe what you would be looking for is something like a NetEqualizer. This device works to equalize all your traffic to make sure one user is not using up all the pipe. It works by tracking active connections by IP address, if it finds a user hogging the bandwidth it puts a delay on their

Re: [WISPA] Advanced Bandwidth Management

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Liotta
Have you thought about selling the customer a pipe that works for any and all traffic at the speed the customer signed up for as opposed to deciding for the customer? -Matt Jason wrote: List, Several times in the last few weeks the topic of bandwidth management has been discussed, but "I