There are other options... I have had a throttle box in place for a year now. The way I see it if I can do this type of management from a central point in my network all the better. Then I don't have to pull radios when things get wacked out. BTW, I haven't had any trouble with this unit since it was installed. I too would say a product should be available for less than $3K. We are working on a box that would provide several features; throttle, MAC/IP Auth, Web Cache and possible even a Content Filter. These type products will be more available as we WISP'ers become more plentiful as we have a unique set of needs.
I do know that if you aren't doing any type of throttling your probably getting slaughtered by the folks who download music and lock up your pipe for long periods of time. This is leading to another development called down throttling the music people to a slow pace dynamically, then when they disconnect from the peer share their pipe gets fast again. Just some thoughts.
Bill
At 11:13 AM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
SimpleTrap, YDI BCU ?
I'm in such a mix up I had planned to buy the new simpletrap's when they came out to redo me entire network and be able to throttle my clients to eliminate some hidden node problems and general misuse of there internet and packetloss but as it seems for whatever reason the simpletrap's look like there running a little behind but I suppose that's because of some probs on the current system they are trying to work out. So I was looking at the YDI BCU and they say you can install one at your noc set up some general rules and it will greatly help on an open system or any system for that matter especially with the hidden node problem (install at noc fix problems with hidden note remotely herm? Lol) but it looked interesting because of the autodiscovery of mac addresses but the problem is the bcu is 3grand and its kinda a large investiment with money being tight lately im not so sure of if it's the right choice. I mean the usability of it is great it looks like and I know ydi is rock solid. But I would really rather have the Simpletrap's themselves doing the management what do I do! Get the BCU or wait it out for simpletrap's to come out sometime in the future. I can't afford a financial mistake at this point L
Chris
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