Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-21 Thread chuck
Is there a way to see that Ares Ultra is being used? Or do you have 
to rely on them telling you they're using it after you notice them 
taking every available packet?


I assume you could somewhat mitigate the problem by using a 'tik to 
provide a shaped bandwidth...full speed for 1 minute, dropping by 
half in the second minute, etc. Or does this not solve the problem?


I imagine it might not help if the problem is packets, not bandwidth, 
if small packets are being created. So that brings up a 
question...can Microtik limit packets by connection as opposed to 
bandwidth? (though we use 'tiks my staff implements them, not me). 
Given that we typically get limited by equipment's ability to process 
rather than bandwidth by itself, it seems like it might be useful to 
go to the source of the problem rather than use bandwidth as a 
proxy to control problems.


Chuck

At 9:29 PM -0500 3/20/07, Pete Davis wrote:
Ares Ultra costs the customer around $50 from what I hear. It 
ENCRYPTS the P2P traffic, and the Mikrotik will NOT recognize it as 
P2P traffic, so it will take EVERY AVAILABLE PACKET that your AP can 
push out. The way I have dealt with this is to disable the client 
(at the radio level) and when they call, I tell them that we cannot 
support P2P applications. If they demand that they have to do it, 
and refuse to quit, then I uninstall them, and suggest that they get 
their broadband elsewhere.


I haven't found a more effective way to make it work.

pd


Mark Nash wrote:
I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella 
program to do unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the 
Mikrotik routers (p2p queue set to 64k) to block this and other 
programs, so it's not working now for the customer.  I want to 
allow for paid downloads, but not P2P filesharing.


Have you come across this?  Can it be dealt with?

Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-
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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-21 Thread Matt

We are looking at automagically throttling the bandwidth hogs back at
peak times and letting them run normally otherwise.  Seems like a good
way to deal with it to keep your normal usage custommers happy and if
your bandwidth hogs don't like it they can move to another ISP.  Have
not yet gotten the scripts done to do this yet although with PPPoE we
religiously track per user usage and have for years.

Matt

On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Is there a way to see that Ares Ultra is being used? Or do you have
to rely on them telling you they're using it after you notice them
taking every available packet?

I assume you could somewhat mitigate the problem by using a 'tik to
provide a shaped bandwidth...full speed for 1 minute, dropping by
half in the second minute, etc. Or does this not solve the problem?

I imagine it might not help if the problem is packets, not bandwidth,
if small packets are being created. So that brings up a
question...can Microtik limit packets by connection as opposed to
bandwidth? (though we use 'tiks my staff implements them, not me).
Given that we typically get limited by equipment's ability to process
rather than bandwidth by itself, it seems like it might be useful to
go to the source of the problem rather than use bandwidth as a
proxy to control problems.

Chuck

At 9:29 PM -0500 3/20/07, Pete Davis wrote:
Ares Ultra costs the customer around $50 from what I hear. It
ENCRYPTS the P2P traffic, and the Mikrotik will NOT recognize it as
P2P traffic, so it will take EVERY AVAILABLE PACKET that your AP can
push out. The way I have dealt with this is to disable the client
(at the radio level) and when they call, I tell them that we cannot
support P2P applications. If they demand that they have to do it,
and refuse to quit, then I uninstall them, and suggest that they get
their broadband elsewhere.

I haven't found a more effective way to make it work.

pd


Mark Nash wrote:
I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella
program to do unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the
Mikrotik routers (p2p queue set to 64k) to block this and other
programs, so it's not working now for the customer.  I want to
allow for paid downloads, but not P2P filesharing.

Have you come across this?  Can it be dealt with?

Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-
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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-21 Thread chuck
The first fly in the ointment I see with the prevailing response from 
many WISPs (tell the 'hogs' to go elsewhere) is MDUs. Telling 
individual customers within an MDU to take a hike (even if you say it 
nicely) if you have an agreement with the MDU owner, could be a 
recipe for losing the MDU contract. Maybe that's necessary in some 
cases, but it'd sure be better to find a way to address the issues 
through technology rather than getting rid of customers.


But there are at least some indications that bandwidth limiting might 
not always be a sufficient solution if the problem is really packet 
processing capacity.


Also, I think getting rid of troubling customers isn't actually a 
solution (except in extreme cases) because they are often an 
indication of where things are headed for the broader market. It's a 
chance to solve the problem now when not many people are affected 
rather than waiting until it's an issue with lots and lots of end 
users.


(By the way, though I'm following up after Matt, I'm not picking on 
his response, just trying to point out what I think some of the 
issues are. We're also looking at no throttling at certain times of 
the day, but restricting usage during peak hours).


Chuck

At 10:43 AM -0500 3/21/07, Matt wrote:

We are looking at automagically throttling the bandwidth hogs back at
peak times and letting them run normally otherwise.  Seems like a good
way to deal with it to keep your normal usage custommers happy and if
your bandwidth hogs don't like it they can move to another ISP.  Have
not yet gotten the scripts done to do this yet although with PPPoE we
religiously track per user usage and have for years.

Matt

On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Is there a way to see that Ares Ultra is being used? Or do you have
to rely on them telling you they're using it after you notice them
taking every available packet?

I assume you could somewhat mitigate the problem by using a 'tik to
provide a shaped bandwidth...full speed for 1 minute, dropping by
half in the second minute, etc. Or does this not solve the problem?

I imagine it might not help if the problem is packets, not bandwidth,
if small packets are being created. So that brings up a
question...can Microtik limit packets by connection as opposed to
bandwidth? (though we use 'tiks my staff implements them, not me).
Given that we typically get limited by equipment's ability to process
rather than bandwidth by itself, it seems like it might be useful to
go to the source of the problem rather than use bandwidth as a
proxy to control problems.

Chuck


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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-21 Thread Matt

The first fly in the ointment I see with the prevailing response from
many WISPs (tell the 'hogs' to go elsewhere) is MDUs. Telling
individual customers within an MDU to take a hike (even if you say it
nicely) if you have an agreement with the MDU owner, could be a
recipe for losing the MDU contract. Maybe that's necessary in some
cases, but it'd sure be better to find a way to address the issues
through technology rather than getting rid of customers.


Perhaps I am missing something somewhere in this post but what is a MDU?

Also, we have nearly a 1000 CPE out and have been in the wisp business
since 2000 and have yet too tell a user to take a hike.  A few I would
have liked to though.  Regretfully the vast majority of our users are
900Mhz now.  There is a bottleneck right there bandwidth wise that
will be very difficult to work around.

Matt
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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-21 Thread George Rogato

MDU Multiple Dwelling Unit

Matt wrote:

The first fly in the ointment I see with the prevailing response from
many WISPs (tell the 'hogs' to go elsewhere) is MDUs. Telling
individual customers within an MDU to take a hike (even if you say it
nicely) if you have an agreement with the MDU owner, could be a
recipe for losing the MDU contract. Maybe that's necessary in some
cases, but it'd sure be better to find a way to address the issues
through technology rather than getting rid of customers.


Perhaps I am missing something somewhere in this post but what is a MDU?

Also, we have nearly a 1000 CPE out and have been in the wisp business
since 2000 and have yet too tell a user to take a hike.  A few I would
have liked to though.  Regretfully the vast majority of our users are
900Mhz now.  There is a bottleneck right there bandwidth wise that
will be very difficult to work around.

Matt


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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-21 Thread chuck

At 2:05 PM -0500 3/21/07, Matt wrote:

The first fly in the ointment I see with the prevailing response from
many WISPs (tell the 'hogs' to go elsewhere) is MDUs. Telling
individual customers within an MDU to take a hike (even if you say it
nicely) if you have an agreement with the MDU owner, could be a
recipe for losing the MDU contract. Maybe that's necessary in some
cases, but it'd sure be better to find a way to address the issues
through technology rather than getting rid of customers.


Perhaps I am missing something somewhere in this post but what is a MDU?


Multidwelling unit (usually an apartment building or rental house). 
Also called MTU (multi-tenant unit).


Chuck


Also, we have nearly a 1000 CPE out and have been in the wisp business
since 2000 and have yet too tell a user to take a hike.  A few I would
have liked to though.  Regretfully the vast majority of our users are
900Mhz now.  There is a bottleneck right there bandwidth wise that
will be very difficult to work around.

Matt
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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread Carl A jeptha
The paid P2P is only for support on the software, it does not make it 
legit. go to the site and read what it says. No royalties are paid to 
anyone.


You have a Good Day now,


Carl A Jeptha
http://www.airnet.ca
Office Phone: 905 349-2084
Office Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm
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Mark Nash wrote:

I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to do 
unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the Mikrotik routers (p2p 
queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not working now for 
the customer.  I want to allow for paid downloads, but not P2P filesharing.

Have you come across this?  Can it be dealt with?

Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-
541-998-5599 fax
  

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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread rabbtux rabbtux

I've seen sites like Limewire that charge for using the program (with
limewire facelift) to do unlimited downloads - Still Ilegal.   Also I
ran across a customer who did his homework  signed up for the third
most popular DVD download site, but it was still a Paid P2P scam!!


On 3/20/07, Mark Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to do 
unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the Mikrotik routers (p2p 
queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not working now for 
the customer.  I want to allow for paid downloads, but not P2P filesharing.

Have you come across this?  Can it be dealt with?

Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-
541-998-5599 fax
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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread David E. Smith
Mark Nash wrote:
 I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to do 
 unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the Mikrotik routers (p2p 
 queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not working now 
 for the customer.  I want to allow for paid downloads, but not P2P 
 filesharing.

The most likely scenario here is the one that's already been mentioned a
couple times - that your customer, basically, was conned. At this time,
I don't know of any (legal) services that operate that way.

At this time being the key phrase.

Over time, this WILL become an issue. Bram Cohen (the author of the
popular BitTorrent software) has made deals with a number of media
centers, such that bittorrent.com is now has a non-trivial amount of
legal content that users download using P2P software. And there are the
classic examples like Linux ISOs and archive.org. There were rumors that
Apple might integrate some kind of P2P software into their iTV (now
AppleTV) product, to speed the download of purchased programming. I
don't think anything came of that, but still.

Like it or not, a lot of our customers want to use P2P software, and
we're basically out of time for the old everything you do is illegal
speech, because that's provably not true any longer. (Yes, it's still
95% true, but that's a quibble.)

Generally, I tell users that I really don't care what they're
downloading, only how they're downloading it. A brief speech on how RF,
as a shared medium, works, and most customers are at least somewhat
understanding. (Note: not necessarily happy, just understanding.)

As a tangent to this, has anyone deployed a sizeable wireless network
that uses, say, Mikrotik's M3P or something similar for the end-users?
If so, does it actually make P2P usable for end-users without making
everyone's connections feel sluggish?

David Smith
MVN.net
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RE: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread Mac Dearman
The only cure for P2P is bandwidth caps. We have operated this way since our
inception 5 years ago. We all sale bandwidth for a living - - the more I
sale the more money I make. I tell every client what their share is for the
month (listed in our TOS  AUP) and I charge for any amount over that.

 I do shape all P2P, but that is for self preservation!

Mac

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David E. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:05 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

Mark Nash wrote:
 I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to do
unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the Mikrotik routers (p2p
queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not working now
for the customer.  I want to allow for paid downloads, but not P2P
filesharing.

The most likely scenario here is the one that's already been mentioned a
couple times - that your customer, basically, was conned. At this time,
I don't know of any (legal) services that operate that way.

At this time being the key phrase.

Over time, this WILL become an issue. Bram Cohen (the author of the
popular BitTorrent software) has made deals with a number of media
centers, such that bittorrent.com is now has a non-trivial amount of
legal content that users download using P2P software. And there are the
classic examples like Linux ISOs and archive.org. There were rumors that
Apple might integrate some kind of P2P software into their iTV (now
AppleTV) product, to speed the download of purchased programming. I
don't think anything came of that, but still.

Like it or not, a lot of our customers want to use P2P software, and
we're basically out of time for the old everything you do is illegal
speech, because that's provably not true any longer. (Yes, it's still
95% true, but that's a quibble.)

Generally, I tell users that I really don't care what they're
downloading, only how they're downloading it. A brief speech on how RF,
as a shared medium, works, and most customers are at least somewhat
understanding. (Note: not necessarily happy, just understanding.)

As a tangent to this, has anyone deployed a sizeable wireless network
that uses, say, Mikrotik's M3P or something similar for the end-users?
If so, does it actually make P2P usable for end-users without making
everyone's connections feel sluggish?

David Smith
MVN.net
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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread Doug Ratcliffe
Or - shape EVERYTHING.  You don't want limits?  You can easily set a burst
limit, not like a typical one, but using long averages and multiple shapes.
Like for instance:

10M burst, for 10 seconds, then 5M burst for 30 seconds, after that you take
it down to 1-2Mbps for say 30 more seconds.  But you don't tell the customer
this...

On a MT router, I noticed shaping on conventional shared cable broadband -
you can literally watch the shape on a big download.

- Original Message - 
From: David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?


 Mark Nash wrote:
  I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to
do unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the Mikrotik routers
(p2p queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not working
now for the customer.  I want to allow for paid downloads, but not P2P
filesharing.

 The most likely scenario here is the one that's already been mentioned a
 couple times - that your customer, basically, was conned. At this time,
 I don't know of any (legal) services that operate that way.

 At this time being the key phrase.

 Over time, this WILL become an issue. Bram Cohen (the author of the
 popular BitTorrent software) has made deals with a number of media
 centers, such that bittorrent.com is now has a non-trivial amount of
 legal content that users download using P2P software. And there are the
 classic examples like Linux ISOs and archive.org. There were rumors that
 Apple might integrate some kind of P2P software into their iTV (now
 AppleTV) product, to speed the download of purchased programming. I
 don't think anything came of that, but still.

 Like it or not, a lot of our customers want to use P2P software, and
 we're basically out of time for the old everything you do is illegal
 speech, because that's provably not true any longer. (Yes, it's still
 95% true, but that's a quibble.)

 Generally, I tell users that I really don't care what they're
 downloading, only how they're downloading it. A brief speech on how RF,
 as a shared medium, works, and most customers are at least somewhat
 understanding. (Note: not necessarily happy, just understanding.)

 As a tangent to this, has anyone deployed a sizeable wireless network
 that uses, say, Mikrotik's M3P or something similar for the end-users?
 If so, does it actually make P2P usable for end-users without making
 everyone's connections feel sluggish?

 David Smith
 MVN.net
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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread Pete Davis
Ares Ultra costs the customer around $50 from what I hear. It ENCRYPTS 
the P2P traffic, and the Mikrotik will NOT recognize it as P2P traffic, 
so it will take EVERY AVAILABLE PACKET that your AP can push out. The 
way I have dealt with this is to disable the client (at the radio level) 
and when they call, I tell them that we cannot support P2P applications. 
If they demand that they have to do it, and refuse to quit, then I 
uninstall them, and suggest that they get their broadband elsewhere.


I haven't found a more effective way to make it work.

pd


Mark Nash wrote:

I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to do 
unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the Mikrotik routers (p2p 
queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not working now for 
the customer.  I want to allow for paid downloads, but not P2P filesharing.

Have you come across this?  Can it be dealt with?

Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-
541-998-5599 fax
  


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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread Pete Davis
Ares Ultra costs the customer around $50 from what I hear. It ENCRYPTS 
the P2P traffic, and the Mikrotik will NOT recognize it as P2P traffic, 
so it will take EVERY AVAILABLE PACKET that your AP can push out. The 
way I have dealt with this is to disable the client (at the radio level) 
and when they call, I tell them that we cannot support P2P applications. 
If they demand that they have to do it, and refuse to quit, then I 
uninstall them, and suggest that they get their broadband elsewhere.


I haven't found a more effective way to make it work.

pd


Mark Nash wrote:

I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to do 
unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the Mikrotik routers (p2p 
queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not working now for 
the customer.  I want to allow for paid downloads, but not P2P filesharing.

Have you come across this?  Can it be dealt with?

Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-
541-998-5599 fax
  



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Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?

2007-03-20 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
Check out the High Speed Wireless program here.  Pay special attention to 
the transfer limits.

http://www.odessaoffice.com/services.html

We turn things like that into profit centers.  If they won't pay, then they 
fire themselves.  OR they learn to control their usage.  If they stay and 
don't control usage, fine with me.  I love my $35 accounts that actually pay 
$50 to $60 per month.  grin

marlon

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To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] P2P Apps Going Legit?


Ares Ultra costs the customer around $50 from what I hear. It ENCRYPTS the 
P2P traffic, and the Mikrotik will NOT recognize it as P2P traffic, so it 
will take EVERY AVAILABLE PACKET that your AP can push out. The way I have 
dealt with this is to disable the client (at the radio level) and when 
they call, I tell them that we cannot support P2P applications. If they 
demand that they have to do it, and refuse to quit, then I uninstall them, 
and suggest that they get their broadband elsewhere.


I haven't found a more effective way to make it work.

pd


Mark Nash wrote:
I had a customer tell me yesterday that he uses his Gnutella program to 
do unlimited downloads from a paid site.  I've used the Mikrotik routers 
(p2p queue set to 64k) to block this and other programs, so it's not 
working now for the customer.  I want to allow for paid downloads, but 
not P2P filesharing.


Have you come across this?  Can it be dealt with?

Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-
541-998-5599 fax




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