> We offer peak speeds of 4mbps, and we > have an > extrordinary amount of people using (abusing as some would say) > streaming > video for many hours of the day causing headaches for us.
I would bandwidth limit the ports, as someone else already mentioned. I would also enable WRED, ECN and everything else I could lay my hands on. What is that port connected to in the customer's end? Are they plugging into a 8 port switch and fanning out that connection to their DVD player which they use to watch Hulu and Netflix and a bunch of other services? My Sony DVD player came with about 6 Internet video services programmed in it and it has an ethernet port. Do they have a slingbox where they are going to watch their home TV from work? And just having all those users on a flat switched network would be one heck of a security hazard (again, as someone else mentioned). But to be honest, I wouldn't deploy that model at all. One person can DOS the entire building depending on how it is deployed and that is without even touching the uplink port. Now figure about a tenth of those computers will be infected by bot nets and will sit there sending spam and click fraud all night long, too. G