Res wrote:
Hi Bob,
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Can Azureus be the cause of the excessive traffic or am I looking
in the
p2p accounts for >70% of internet traffic, so yes most definately.
In early days we had some plans where we allowed true unlimited, some
criminals (yes thats what they are since 99.9%R of p2p is illegal
movie d/l's) were on a 1.5 mb dsl connection exceeding 300 gigs a
month, thats flat strapping their connection 24/7. Needless to say we
stopped it, and its because of idiots like them, that most ISP's now
have limits and/or enforce fair use policies, they think that its a
1:1 contention ratio and if they pay $70 a month they are entitled to
leach 300 gigs, maybe if we started sending them the price of that
data that costs us, plus the tail costs, plus the agvc costs, plus
maint costs, plus staff costs, plus a little bit of profit, they would
soon wake up... or maybe wake up in intensive care after seeing the [$
value] invoice induced heart attack.
Aha, therein lies my problem, all this while I had a false sense of
security thinking I had thwarted previous efforts with bittorrent
which Junior had installed some time ago!
Using a linux box as nat router? search for and get the layer7 patch
for iptables
yield. We've had the kids computer powered off for two days and the
usage still trends upward so they are probably off the hook and the
finger points
This is one problem people who use p2p all the time forget, you can
turn your pc off, or even just close p2p programs, people can still be
swarming your connection for hours to *days* later, whether your
online for not, some networks simply ignore the fact you are gone,
even on gnutella/limewire networks where you tell the network you are
logging off, it still happens, the packets go missing and they all
think your still there.
Wow, that's discouraging if I understand what you are saying. I guess
the effect would be intermittent depending on what files the system
thinks you have? Hopefully it gradually subsides when there is no response?
This ISP uses a 30 day total so it takes some time for our numbers to
improve.
I got the call to supper. Need to go.
Thanks for the comments.
Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia
