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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:18 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Vuze / Comcast / Peer to Peer / FCC

> What is considered a large number of connections?
> How many connections is it safe to limit to, without compromising a user's
> typical usage.
> Would this be an effective way of determining when a class of plan is
being
> abused, such as a business using a residential plan, or a small community
> WISP trying to use a single residential plan conneciton?
> Is it possible that we need to start charge for "number of connections"
> instead of just say the number of bytes transfered or speed?

My nephew and I occassionally play BF2142 online.  My Linksys DD-WRT
based router had a problem.  It had max ports set out 512.  When my PC
then his polled hundreds of servers to find the best connection it hit
that limit.  Raising it to 1024 seemed to fix it.

So limiting connections will likely smack gamers as well as p2p users.

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Keep in mind that when a gamer opens 1024 connections within a few seconds,
he will have a detrimental effect on any wireless network and severe effect
on those wireless networks that do not use polling (i.e. 802.11 based
systems).  So as a network operator, you may still be interested in limiting
resource availability for that sort of application.

- Larry



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