Marlon, as you know I've been a proponent of usage based billing since I've
been in broadband. But, whether you bill for it or not, PTP still eats up
the AP to the point it slows it down for everyone. How do you get around
that?
-RickG

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Marlon K. Schafer 
<o...@odessaoffice.com>wrote:

> Hiya Roman,
>
> We bill per bit.  That way we don't care what the customer is doing, all
> we're worried about is how much they uses.  Run edonkey and you'll get an
> extra bill.  Download Netflix and you'll get an extra bill etc.
>
> MOST of the time we catch virus's for our customers.  It's actually a
> pretty
> good sales tool.  Netflix is changing that somewhat though.
> marlon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roman" <consulttele...@gmail.com>
> To: <wireless@wispa.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 3:34 AM
> Subject: [WISPA] How to block p2p traffic in public Wi-Fi hotspot?
>
>
> > Dear readers,
> >
> > Do you have any experience with successful blocking of P2P (eDonkey,
> > Torrents etc.) traffic in your wireless networks?
> >
> > Any user who uses torrent client at his PC can effectively consume a lot
> > of
> > bandwidth of Wi-Fi access point, leaving other honest users with small
> > portion of throughput. Port blocking does not help because nowadays P2P
> > clients use random ports, encryption and other means to hide traffic
> > patterns. I suppose that only one distinctive feature of such traffic
> > exists: its ability to consume effective bandwidth.
> >
> > Do you happen to know or use any traffic shaping tools which can limit
> > throughput per user?
> > Thank you in advance for any thoghts, ideas etc...
> >
> >
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