GET OFF MY LAWN!

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:

> I hope there is a way under the Open Internet Order to deny service to
> gamers who live stream on Twitch.  The term “attractive nuisance” comes to
> mind.
>
> In addition to DOS attacks, wasn’t there a rash of swatting attacks
> against Twitch players, where the SWAT team would bust into their house
> while they were streaming?
>
>
> *From:* Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 14, 2015 1:40 PM
> *To:* af@afmug.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] AF24HD
>
> Last week we start getting angry twitter posts from a customer but no
> matching name.
>
> About the same time a tower site goes down.   Start investigating the
> outage and find >100Mbps flooding the tower from a DOS attack.   Track down
> the IP/Customer it’s aimed at.  Hey, wait a minute, isn’t that the guy
> complaining on twitter?   Oh yeah.   Claims to be a professional call of
> duty player who gets paid.   Really?
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
>
> That competitor is in for a rude awakening, customers whose VoIP calls
> drop and Roku video freezes consider even a momentary outage or degradation
> "Unacceptable!" (to quote Beldar):
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUE7LAFrOM
>
> This is not the Internet of a few years ago, where people didn't even
> notice short outages.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Mattinen
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 11:58 AM
> To: af@afmug.com
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AF24HD
>
> On 9/14/15 09:42, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> > That’s just crazy, unless you can tolerate outages whenever it rains.
> > Whatever number you use for rain fade per mile, let’s say 10 dB/mile at
> > 24 GHz, multiply by 12.  No way you are going to get 120 dB fade
> > margin.  The only way would be if your weather is such that it never
> > rains over more than a very small area at the same time.
>
>
> There's a competitor in my area with outages or degraded service as
> normal ops (it's a feature not a bug) and their customers largely seem
> to accept it.
>
> ~Seth
>
>
>



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