Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-22 Thread Tom DeReggi
, October 22, 2007 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P Tom DeReggi wrote: No offense taken. Its the opinions from all, that allows us to reconsider a better balanced perspective. I may have been a bit over the top on my previous statements, but none the less, I do

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: Butch Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Tom DeReggi wrote: Interesting arcticle

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
- Original Message - From: Brian Whigham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 13:01 -0500, David E. Smith wrote: CHUCK PROFITO wrote: http

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
://radius.odessaoffice.com/iptrack laters, marlon - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; WISPA General List Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P I would have to agree. They did it to save

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Travis Johnson
PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P 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

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Mac Dearman
:46 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P Marlon, I'm glad using the metered model works for you... but not in this area, nor ANY other area where there is cable, DSL, and 2-10 other wireless providers that do not charge based on usage. Yes, I

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread CHUCK PROFITO
To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P Travis, Did you sit in on Image Stream's conversations about packet limiting? I am going to have to find out a little more about that myself. Mac -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Butch Evans
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Mac Dearman wrote: Did you sit in on Image Stream's conversations about packet limiting? I am going to have to find out a little more about that myself. You are a well connected guy, Maccall in your people and it shall be done! :-) -- Butch Evans Network

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Butch Evans
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, CHUCK PROFITO wrote: Not for the General List ?? I'm confused...what is not for the General List? -- Butch Evans Network Engineering and Security Consulting 573-276-2879 http://www.butchevans.com/ My calendar: http://tinyurl.com/y24ad6 Training Partners:

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Sam Tetherow
Tom DeReggi wrote: No offense taken. Its the opinions from all, that allows us to reconsider a better balanced perspective. I may have been a bit over the top on my previous statements, but none the less, I do not agree with Comcast's position on this topic. It doesn't sit right with me, and

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-20 Thread Scottie Arnett
. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P Scottie Arnett wrote: Forgot to mention...if BT clients would not come with deafult connections set at 500 to 1000, I might allow

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-20 Thread George Rogato
I'm not sure if we're talking about limiting the connections just for torrents, or for everything. If you can limit the connections just for torrents and leave everything else wide open, that would be great, but if by limiting the connections for everything, then that is not the solution

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-20 Thread Butch Evans
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, George Rogato wrote: I'm not sure if we're talking about limiting the connections just for torrents, or for everything. There are many ways to limit connections. With iptables (and considerable time and effort), you can put together quite a complex set of tests to

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
List wireless@wispa.org 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, actually. By most accounts, the traffic is throttled

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Luke Pack
. Luke - Original Message - From: Tom DeReggi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P Interesting arcticle. My belief is that any ISP has the right to control usage

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

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Scottie Arnett
: Friday, October 19, 2007 4:52 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P 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

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 p2p

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Scottie Arnett
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P I would have to agree. They did it to save costs, which includes bandwidth, transport, equipment upgrades, etc. If I run our

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P Scottie Arnett wrote: Forgot

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P On Fri, October 19, 2007 2:24 pm, Tom DeReggi wrote: Yeah right

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

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
, 2007 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P 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

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P because we control the majority market, and we won't let you play with our clients in a favorable manner. My mistake, majority Market

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

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
. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P I would have to agree. They did it to save costs, which includes bandwidth

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Scottie Arnett
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 4:12 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P 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

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 anymore.

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Scottie Arnett
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 4:12 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P Scottie Arnett wrote: In my opinion, if they have something legit to transfer, they can setup and use ftp

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
). - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Scottie Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:56 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P In my opinion

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
). - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: Scottie Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:56 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P In my opinion

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

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Smith, Rick
: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P 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

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

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

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

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

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] 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 Tom DeReggi
Interesting arcticle. 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. The last few sentances summarizing of the arcticle homing in on the issue. Basically