--- On Mon, 12/15/08, Sven Anderson <s...@anderson.de> wrote: > As long as you allow > arbitrary ports your bandwidth is always maxed out because > of file transfers. If you only allow port 80 you have a very > erratic bandwidth usage.
So if you have only port 80 open, your connection is being under-utilized. > Of course it's possible to > download large files over HTTP as well. But the users > obviously don't do it. Because it isn't efficient.