I can't say enough about the guys at Imagestream. I'm a proud customer, host
their servers and have put my business in their hands on more times than I
have things to count them on. I've never had an issue they did not stop all
other work to figure out and get tweaked. We have just installed on of their
Rebel Routers in a shack at the base of the tower which feeds them their
internet. Scott, Josh and Eric are working on doing some hard core QOS to
run across my PTP link and having the added ability to do the QOS and P2P
tweaking before the packets hit the PTP link has resulted in much better
performance. Just the P2P work they have done has saved me a lot of problems
and bandwidth. To say the staff are friends is an understatement. Having
them on my wireless is also a big benefit to other WISP's as they have felt
the pain first hand of many of the problems we all encounter from time to
time.... a tower down due to massive ice loading, twice I've lost the AP on
that tower to storm damage and the last issue was my PTP link going dead.
Not only do I trust them but I rely on them and they have not failed me in
any way over the last 5 years.
Tom Andrews
"Stuart Pierce fan club member"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:30
Subject: Re: [WISPA] P2P & Worm Monitoring/Alerting/Control
Like the others that have spoken up here we use MT. Butch does all of the
work on it for us as I'm no router guy. Great stuff.
The only problem is that there is basically no factory support. And Butch
has a real job too. grin
I've been sending my consulting customers to www.imagestream.com mostly.
For about the same price that mt wants per MONTH for direct support you can
get a full year of service. And when we buy the units from them they come
with hardware and software support, pre programmed and with the firewalls
all set up and ready to go. Great people, I've met a few of the guys from
there eyeball to eyeball.
I LOVE my MT boxes and the gui is great. The lack of support is a deal
breaker for me though. I'm stuck with them now but starting over I'd
probably use something else.
If you have the pc's already laying around it's a far cheaper option though.
Even after paying the devil (Butch) his due to make it work right. (just
funnin with Butch here guys, he's THE man and should be charging more than
he does, he's that good)
Hope that helps!
Marlon
(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales
(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services
42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp!
64.146.146.12 (net meeting)
www.odessaoffice.com/wireless
www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Nash
To: WISPA General List
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: [WISPA] P2P & Worm Monitoring/Alerting/Control
I'm at the point on my network now that I really need to control
unnecessary bandwidth usage. The biggest problem is the p2p users with
their excessive upload, and worms come in a close second.
My network is comprised of a Cisco 3640, Cisco C4840G L3 switch for
segmenting, and Dell 3324 managed switches. I have run ntop in the past but
I believe it only reports interactively through the web interface. I
wouldn't consider myself too far off from obtaining an SNMP station/software
like SNMPc.
I'm needing to implement a solution that will monitor, alert on, and
control this type of traffic. Either not pass it or rate-limit it. I'm
interested in solutions that have been implemented, home-grown, tested,
failed, etc.
Thanks in advance...
Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
325 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-5555
541-998-5599 fax
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