You are not allowed to block legal content. Period.
If you rate limit it, you could perhaps claim it is reasonable network
management, but “no throttling” is another of the 3 bright line rules.
Remember one of the 2 or 3 actual cases of “bad behavior” cited for justifying
all this was Comcast interfering with Bit Torrent back in something like 2007,
and they weren’t even outright blocking it.
As far as being sued, a customer could file a complaint with the FCC, rather
than pursuing civil damages, likely that is the way they would go since all
they have to do is fill in a form on the FCC website.
My guess is the FCC will be much more interested in pursuing complaints from
the likes of Netflix, Cogent and Level3 against the likes of Comcast, Verizon
and Time Warner. Unless you piss off John Oliver. So it might just be like
the BBB, they just send you the complaint and let you figure out what to do
with it. That reminds me, I need to check if we are supposed to be registering
a contact to receive Open Internet Order complaints, that kind of rings a bell,
but maybe I’m confusing it with having a DC registered agent for CPNI
complaints if you file Form 499.
The other factor on your side is the customer might not want to complain to the
FCC if their reasons for using Bit Torrent are not exactly legal or moral. And
customers wanting to torrent legitimate content, like maybe Linux ISOs, will
probably just use another method and not have a cow over it.
From: Josh Reynolds
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:46 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
I'll say this again: After consulting with no less than 3 legal firms who
specialize in communications/fcc law, we are in the clear. I'm not going to get
into a debate about the legality of this because (A) I'm not a lawyer and (B)
neither are you. We have been told that subscribers agree to the restrictions
on our network when they sign a contract. The language is the same used for
commercial services.
Yes, the restriction applies to all torrent traffic.
Josh Reynolds
CIO, SPITwSPOTS
www.spitwspots.comOn 06/10/2015 11:37 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
IMO your only concern should be getting sued. Anyone that's torrenting stuff
probably doesn't have the money for a lawyer to do that.
Do you do any CIR connections for businesses? Do you block them?
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337 3
Troy, OH 45373
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Josh Reynolds <j...@spitwspots.com> wrote:
And after that based on the legal advice we have received from no less than
3 Communications Lawyers
Josh Reynolds
CIO, SPITwSPOTS
www.spitwspots.comOn 06/10/2015 09:41 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
And you can legally do it until this Friday.
From: Josh Reynolds
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:10 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
We have been blocking torrents as a network protection measure for over 6
years using various DPI and behavioral detection systems, and its in our AUP.
We have never lost a customer or even had a complaint because of it.
On Jun 10, 2015 4:56 AM, Mathew Howard mailto:mhoward...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed. I don't even want to think about how many calls we would have
to deal with if blocked VPNs... and torrents for that matter.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote:
Yes and blindly killing things is a terrible practice.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com
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From: "Paul McCall" <pa...@pdmnet.net>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
Rory, how do you “kill torrents”? technically,
And, aren’t there a lot o legitimate programs that use torrents as
the distribution method?
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 3:54 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
If you have file sharers on there for example, I’ve seen XM radios
drop to 10Mbps or less (another reason we kill torrents). If you watch the
modulation levels when that happens, you will also see them drop as the CPU
load goes up.
Rory
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 12:46 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
PS in the run queue? That certainly isn't load, there's no way an XM
radio can do 20+.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm with Rory. It depends a lot on the traffic, and and what role it
may be playing (backhaul, AP, or SM). This is just a 1 day snapshot of one in
SM role.
bp<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 6/8/2015 12:34 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
SSH into every single AP and it says 0.00 or 0.01. I used to graph
it way back (maybe 5.3 days?) and I never saw it deviate. This is definitely
all XM gear.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Rory Conaway
<r...@triadwireless.net> wrote:
I would have to se your data, mine does not support that.
Sent from fromm phone where I type with a single digit so please
excuse shortcuts or typos.
Rory Conaway
Triad Wireless
-------- Original message --------
From: Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>
Date: 06/08/2015 3:26 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
If that was the case why are the loads of every radio 0.01 or less?
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Rory Conaway
<r...@triadwireless.net> wrote:
To prove my point further, if you do throughput testing with
Ubiquity in ptmp mode, you will find with xm radios, cpu load affects
modulation levels. I haven't tested xw radios yet but I believe the threshold
is just higher and probably justifies 30mhz but it's going to be close.
Sent from fromm phone where I type with a single digit so please
excuse shortcuts or typos.
Rory Conaway
Triad Wireless
-------- Original message --------
From: Rory Conaway <r...@triadwireless.net>
Date: 06/08/2015 3:16 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
The pps and cpu load absolutely is another variable you need to
take into acount, especially with 400 and 526mhz atheros processors that are
also running polling. Ignore it as part of your overall strategy and you
could be wasting spectrum. If your ap never exceeds 80mbps, why do you want
30mhz channels. Sarcasm aside, does that help you understand my point.
Sent from fromm phone where I type with a single digit so please
excuse shortcuts or typos.
Rory Conaway
Triad Wireless
-------- Original message --------
From: Josh Reynolds <j...@spitwspots.com>
Date: 06/08/2015 2:17 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
I think we are having two different conversations, and I have no
idea what you are talking about right now.
What we were discussing has to do with channel sizes, epmp, and
ubiquiti. In particular, why UBNT 40mhz isn't any better than 30mhz in terms of
efficiency.
This part of the discussion has nothing at all to do with any
theories on PPS you may have, other than those you have tried to inject into
this discussion.
On Jun 8, 2015 10:07 AM, Rory Conaway <r...@triadwireless.net>
wrote:
Excopt that as was mentioned before, the s/n ratio goes down and
if you aren't hitting the limits of the physical layer in 20MHz, why do it?
Sent from fromm phone where I type with a single digit so please
excuse shortcuts or typos.
Rory Conaway
Triad Wireless
-------- Original message --------
From: Josh Reynolds <j...@spitwspots.com>
Date: 06/08/2015 12:43 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
I can assure you that on radios connected in a ptp config or
small ptmp, that you will see more throughput on the 30mhz channel given a
noise floor of -97 and signals in the mid -50s, even with nothing connected on
the other side of the radios.
Its an efficiency issue.
On Jun 8, 2015 8:13 AM, Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I kind of does, the way I understood it, that bottleneck limited
you from really being able to do anything beyond what a 30mhz channel could
support.
Now that I think about it, I have seen 40mhz perform better than
30mhz... but yes, that was because of RF problems, and neither one was doing
anything close to what it would with a good link.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Josh Reynolds
<j...@spitwspots.com> wrote:
That is a bottleneck in the system, but not relevant as far as
this discussion goes. That has nothing to do with the 30/40MHz channel
efficiency per say.
On Jun 8, 2015 8:03 AM, Rory Conaway <r...@triadwireless.net>
wrote:
The limitation on the older xm radios was pps. When you added a
lot of small packets and airmax, you could drop down to as low as 40Mbps. In
the real world in ptmp mode. We planned for 50mhz per AP with eveything g taken
into account.
Sent from fromm phone where I type with a single digit so please
excuse shortcuts or typos.
Rory Conaway
Triad Wireless
-------- Original message --------
From: Josh Reynolds <j...@spitwspots.com>
Date: 06/08/2015 11:59 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
This. Thought it was pretty obvious but I guess I assumed too
much out of some on this list ;)
On Jun 8, 2015 7:33 AM, Jeremy <jeremysmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think he is talking about using 40MHz channels on the older M
series, that didn't have gig ports. It was my understanding that the processor
would get taxed as well on a 40MHz channel, making 30MHz actually work better.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Josh Luthman
<j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
Ubnt and epmp have gig ports.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Jun 8, 2015 11:20 AM, "Josh Reynolds" <j...@spitwspots.com>
wrote:
I don't know how epmp does it.
For UBNT, a 30mhz channel is just a "fat" 20mhz channel in the
atheros chip. Single operation. For a 40mhz channel, it's really two 20s,
meaning radio operations are ran twice. Loss in efficiency, also marred by the
lack of gigabit port.
On Jun 8, 2015 7:13 AM, Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I've never seeing much difference in performance on the ubnt M
series between 30mhz and 40mhz channels, so yes, I would say that is true...
but I'm not sure how much applies to ePMP - they do have a much a faster
processor and on a software level they are very different.
So far, I have been running all of our ePMP APs on 20mhz channels
and PTP links on 40mhz or 20mhz, depending on how much capacity they need. I
haven't really seen much need to go down to 10mhz channels with ePMP.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Shayne Lebrun
<sleb...@muskoka.com> wrote:
I seem to recall that with the M series, at least, a 30 mhz
channel works 'better' than a 40 because the 40 is really two 20 mhz channels
bonded together, where a 30 mhz channel is a 30 mhz channel.
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Rory Conaway
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2015 8:32 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
I'm not that familiar with the ePMP's yet but I can tell you some
things that we saw with Ubiquiti. One is that channel width does not scale
with bandwidth that that Atheros chipset. For example, 40MHz channels rarely
hit their theoretical maximum due to a variety of factors, noise, lower s/n,
processor limitations, etc... Second, 20MHz channels seem to be the sweet spot
but even with GPS sync, you have to deal with reflections. Third, 10MHz
channels have more overhead as a percentage of total capacity and don't handle
a lot of users well (above 40 for example with the older 400MHz chipsets. I'm
starting to deploy XW radios with the 520MHz processors but everything is 20MHz
now so I don't have a comparison). We did see peaks of 32Mbps with some
customers on 10MHz channels but that's non-peak times. In peak times, we were
seeing 8Mbps when more users were online.
Rory
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Craig House
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2015 5:20 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] EPMP 10 mhz vs 20mhz
We have deployed 6 towers to begin our new EPMP network and 4 of
those towers have a full cluster of 2.4 90 degree EPMP sectors. They are
configured with ACS turned off now because in several cases they all ended up
on the same or very close to the same channel. I have Front back designations
and non overlapping channels set up on all towers. I have tried 40 mhz 20 mhz
and now 10mhz channels and while the customer stability has gotten better the
more I play with settings I have kind of hit a point I dont know what else to
try. I have some that the uplink quality will vary wildly from 100% to 0%.
Most have gotten better since I went to a 10mhz channel. Most of the customers
get 12MB -30mb down in the wireless link test but the uplinks are as bad as
.17. What is the cause of this poor uplink quality? Is it interfernece? My
one 5ghz AP does not have this problem but even with noise many of these
customers have -50 signals and oddly enough the ones with the great signals
seem to be the ones that have the poorest link tests on the up link side. I
also have customes with -65 or -72 signals that get 5MB up on the same sectors?
Im scratching my head a bit on what the fix is for this? Should I leave ACS
on and change everything to 10mhz channels? Will a full cluster with ACS on
work all on the same channel?
I'm used to FSK where you pick your channel and any channels that
are adjacent will cause problems with connected SM's. So am I just applying
old knowledge to a technology that it doesn't apply to?
Craig
