Justin, Are you doing the prioritizing/queuing with MT and L7?
Greg On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> wrote: > Several companies are now using torrents to distribute stuff. World Of > Warcraft is one. Gets kind of touchy when you have customers paying for a > service, such as WOW, and are unable to get updates to play. Everything I > ever do I give torrent traffic a lower priority and it¹s own global que. > The download is what they really need, so the upload gets throttled pretty > heavily. This fits in well with the ³no server² rule on most networks > because the customer really is not running a server. They are connecting to > Bit Torrent to download. Granted, most torrent clients are setup to share > what has been downloaded, but if the upload is throttled or the customer is > told not to share then it just becomes FTP with a bunch of connections. > The > connections can be limited as well. > > The last patch I downloaded for an online game was 145 megs. I was able > to get much better speed using a torrent than I would have if I would have > used FTP or HTTP. > > Justin > > -- > Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> > CCNA CCNT Mikrotik Advanced > http://j2sw.mtin.net/blog > > > > From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:54:45 -0500 > To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: [WISPA] bit torrents > > Even though our AUP & TOS does not allow it, I have a customer > demanding to run bit torrents. I want to be fair in all matters. Am I > being over > zealous on not allowing torrents? Who here allows or disallows them? > -RickG > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > 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/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
