RE: The home user problem returns

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Brian Loe wrote:


        [SNIP]

> ONLY, and I mean ONLY, if that business has provided its customers with the
> idea that it CAN control such things. What we're finding now is that
> customers are getting even more dissatisfied with their providers because
> they can NOT prevent it from happening - it's CUSTOMER INITIATED!!!! The
> spam, the viruses...you can't prevent me, your customer, from being stupid.
> Trying to do so only ruins the service for all of us. Now MY bandwidth is
> getting eaten by your good intentions just because my neighbor can't keep
> his teenager off the porn sites.

        [SNIP]

> PLEASE explain to me how my P2P app is going to affect you - my ISP - or my
> neighbor?

In a shared bandwidth scenario, the pron surfing kid and your p2p 
connections are not mutually exclusive, they both have exactly the same 
impact.



On another note to this thread as a whole;

beside ingress and egress filtering, how much might ISP's suffer for 
correcting some of the windows network protocol errors by not passing 
ports 135-139, 445 and 5000 etc across perimiters?  Or even allowing them 
to braodcast witin the ISP's realm?  Certainly would work to neuter the M$ 
issues to a low noise level would it not?


Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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