Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-22 Thread Tom DeReggi
;Sam Tetherow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Monday, 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 perspect

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

2007-10-21 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: http://tinyurl.

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 Eng

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread CHUCK PROFITO
: '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: [

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Mac Dearman
t; Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:46 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 w

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Travis Johnson
nt: 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 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 traffi

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
;s how we track it. http://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 a

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Brian Whigham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" 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: C

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-21 Thread Tom DeReggi
are reading? Do they have a choice if they don't like what they read? Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Butch Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Saturday

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 limit

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 being

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-20 Thread Scottie Arnett
m DeReggi >RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc >IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband > > >- Original Message - >From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "WISPA General List" >Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 5:51 PM >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how C

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-20 Thread Brian Whigham
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 13:01 -0500, David E. Smith wrote: > 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 custome

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: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
, October 19, 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 encrypte

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
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List" 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 m

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
petitive advantage. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComC

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Tom DeReggi
om DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

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 equipm

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
1kbps. Sue me. 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 incl

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 bee

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
: [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 u

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
be adopting P2P). - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Scottie Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:56 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Look how Com

Re: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Mike Hammett
be adopting P2P). - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Scottie Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:56 PM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Look how Com

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
: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P 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] [mail

RE: [WISPA] Look how ComCast deals with P2P

2007-10-19 Thread Smith, Rick
nson 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 network wide open (which I do fr

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
good speed. Luke - Original Message - From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" 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 rig

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] 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 when

[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 at