> > What is considered a large number of connections? > > How many connections is it safe to limit to, without compromising a user's > > typical usage. > > Would this be an effective way of determining when a class of plan is > being > > abused, such as a business using a residential plan, or a small community > > WISP trying to use a single residential plan conneciton? > > Is it possible that we need to start charge for "number of connections" > > instead of just say the number of bytes transfered or speed? > > My nephew and I occassionally play BF2142 online. My Linksys DD-WRT > based router had a problem. It had max ports set out 512. When my PC > then his polled hundreds of servers to find the best connection it hit > that limit. Raising it to 1024 seemed to fix it. > > So limiting connections will likely smack gamers as well as p2p users. > > ------------------------------------ > > Keep in mind that when a gamer opens 1024 connections within a few seconds, > he will have a detrimental effect on any wireless network and severe effect > on those wireless networks that do not use polling (i.e. 802.11 based > systems). So as a network operator, you may still be interested in limiting > resource availability for that sort of application.
We run Canopy. When a gamer does this they usually find a server and do not have to run another scan for quite some time. Where p2p does this crap all day long. P2p is also a bandwidth hog and we have limited resources there due to the wireless loop and we deploy in rural areas where bandwidth is pricey. Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
