He needs to understand that the security system using 100% of his upstream will make his downstream seem slow because requests and acks have to wait in queue or even experience dropped packets.
Most of the time when experts tell a customer they need a router with QoS, that’s a bunch of BS because the congestion is in the downstream direction, but in this case it would actually make sense. Maybe in their router/firewall they can either limit the upstream bandwidth for the security system to perhaps 50% of the total upstream connection speed, or set it to be low priority so it doesn’t impact everything else. Then you could find out if the security system adapts to the bandwidth it is allowed to use, or needs a minimum of X or it “goes nuts”. From: Jason McKemie Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Amazon EC2 So at this point are you calling that a server and requiring a business account or just letting it go? On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: They have video cameras, but told me they're using an on-site DVR. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 4/14/2015 9:07 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 4/14/15 8:46, Bill Prince wrote: That's what we did. Got him on the phone & blocked the traffic. His security system went nuts. Wonder what's so important to need to send that quantity of data for a security system? Video capability? ~Seth
