Internet traffic and Azureus -

[Bob Goodwin]

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