I recently had the misfortune to find a user connected to a BEFW11S4 running Kazaa in SuperNode mode with, shall we say, a lot of popular material on his hard drive.
The BEFW11S4 had load balanced across each open socket, causing the wireless net to perform like molasses: as a result, each user could get < 1K out of any socket.
It's easy to solve this by disabling Kazaa's supernode port (1294), and this even leaves Kazaa working for users (functioning as a supernode seems to be the real problem, not just 100 porn downloads :).
However, so long as the ##(&%#(& thing is load balancing on a per-socket and not a per-user basis, at least the BEFW11S4 seems subject to being practically disabled by a single user creating many connections. This is not the behavior I would expect from a "router."
Solutions / experiences / comments?
-Ken
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