Just two links should tell you all you need to know: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=8081
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115002,00.asp Basically, if you aren't regularly checking your PC for zombie, don't have a firewall of some sort, be it hardware or software, on a PC, Mac, or *nix, or run a mail server and don't regularly check for an open relay, you could be part of the problem. Spam and viruses kill bandwidth, and things are only getting worse. Some folks could be having some problems with signal levels on their cable network, or some other potential plant issue, it's true, but the vast majority of issues are with people who are unwittingly or purposefully using massive amounts of bandwidth propagating spam and/or viruses. Get an anti-virus program. Lock down your mail servers. Get a firewall software for your PCs (go here for more info on all of this: http://www.nc.rr.com/security/) Sorry I can't be more informative, but that's what I know at the moment. I can't give you the details on bandwidth usage, but those links above should provide all the info you really need. It ain't easy bein' in the ISP biz, so thank you Jon for at least asking for an informed answer before folks start jumping to conclusions and flaming away. As I've said before, I'm happy to answer questions as far as I can about our service, just so long as y'all don't use me for your personal tech support contact. Homey don't play 'dat. Regards, Ben Pitzer --------------------------------------------- "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Ben Franklin-- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Jon Carnes > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 9:02 PM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Re: Time To Ditch RoadRunner? > > > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 20:50, Brian A. Henning wrote: > > > I've done some analysis of their network (since they added the VoIP > > > offerings) and it looks to me as though the VoIP is given higher > > > priority at the community router level, but then it has a different > > > internal path from the data. > > > > > > At that point the voice traffic is run across separate > systems from the > > > data - so the voice should only affect local traffic, and the effect > > > should be exceedingly small considering the Bandwidth used by VoIP. > > > > > > The Gateway routers and other Internet services should not be affected > > > by VoIP traffic. > > > > > > Maybe Ben can give us a few hints on setup of our Local RR. > > > > Heh.. wish this had come about 30 seconds sooner.. oh well, got to let > > ignorance rear its ugly head now and then and be thwarted by those more > > knowledgeable than I.. > > > NP - most of my observations are based on IWAG's. > > I'll bet that the loss of Bandwidth is most likely caused by the > onslaught of current viral activity. The past two weeks have been worse > than any in recorded history. They are overloading both web and mail > servers across the internet. > > Now is a really good time to make that jump to Linux on your > Workstation. I've been running with nothing but for over two years now! > > Jon > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
