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
541-998-5555
541-998-5599 fax
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