Perhaps in a community wireless network, run by enthusiasts you would need to assume that your users would have a desire to occupy all 11Mbit transferring files to each other. It sounds like this gentleman is setting up a commercial WISP. If that is indeed the case, 99% of his users will be interested only in connecting to AOL and Kazaa. Perhaps I am missing something, but if all their traffic is Internet bound I don't see how they can consume more bandwidth on the wireless network than is available to them at the gateway.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Thompson Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:38 AM To: Fred Weston Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [BAWUG] How Can I control the customers bandwidth I think you misunderstand the capacity issues of wireless networks. Jim Fred Weston writes: > There wouldn't be any need to. In a typical WISP setup, you wouldn't > care so much about how much bandwidth they use on the local network, > all you care about is how much of your hardwired Internet connection > they utilize. Therefore, you can put a box doing traffic shaping at > the edge of the network and accomplish it at the "CO". > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:12 AM > To: Fred Weston > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [BAWUG] How Can I control the customers bandwidth > > > > Good luck running FreeBSD on your CPE. > > Fred Weston writes: > > M0n0wall also has basic traffic shaping ability. > > > > http://www.m0n0.ch/wall > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Thompson > > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 12:56 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [BAWUG] How Can I control the customers bandwidth > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Hello, > > > > > > This may seam like a really dumb question but how do you control > > > the customers bandwidth? I have read four books on deploying as a > > > WISP > and > > > > > scoured the net looking for this answer. Is software available > > > that controls the bandwidth? I looked at http://www.funk.com and > > > did not see a mention about this. I currently am in the first > > > phases of an initial roll-out to a rural area and need some help > > > with this last detail. As a matter of fact any help would be > > > appreciated. > > > > Nearly impossible until you control the last hop at your cusotmer's > > location, then its merely difficult. > > > > Google for "frottle" or "WiCCP" if you like to roll your own, or > > "Karlnet" if you like to pay a small mint. > > > > -- > > "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." > > -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) > > > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > -- > "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." > -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) > > > > -- "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." -- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
