We just shoot the customer and cover up the evidence.

Oh, wait......  that was just a dream I had.  Nevermind.  Sorry.

Bob-

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <[email protected]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Slow speed


> Ryan:
>
> Presently we don't meter, but we do limit connections to 20 per IP at any
> one time.  Stops torrents running amuck.  Also, I tell my customers we 
> have
> engineered our network for bursty traffic.  We want their web pages, XBox
> and email to load really fast, and they do; typically at 3 Mbps.  We tell
> them long duration connections are subject to throttling if the network 
> gets
> congested.  They ask what that is and I reply audio and video downloads.
> Most understand and appreciate that it is optimized for their behavior.
>
> Friendly Regards,
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Ryan Ghering
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:36 PM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Slow speed
>
> We recently visited a customer whom complained about slow speeds,
> speed test to our local server showed a whooping 98k down and 70k up.
> This customer is on a 1 meg down 512k up plan. The customer insisted
> that they were doing nothing on the link. After about 2 hours of
> diagnostics we find out the customers kid had a wireless laptop under
> his bed downloading hundreds of torrents via udp connections. The
> customer complained that we charged them a truck roll fee for this. We
> informed them that it could have cost them alot more if we charged per
> gig downloaded. From the 1st of the month till the 15th this customer
> downloaded 92gigs of data. We are currently looking into metering
> consumer connections now. This is about the 20 or 30th call like this
> or similar this year alone. We now also know to look for udp and upnp
> instead of just tcp connections.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jeremie Chism <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I love to go out and work for an hour troubleshooting a customer
>> complaint about slow speed only to find out that their dell poweredge
>> switch is bad. Funny thing is that it was letting a little traffic
>> come through....say 300k or so.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
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