Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

[Charles Wyble <charles () thewybles com>]

Quite a bit of overhead. Good article here:
http://blog.ioshints.info/2009/03/adsl-overhead.html



Curtis Maurand wrote:
> I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down 
> the port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs 
> bandwidth and has huge management overhead when you have to disconnect a 
> customer.  I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch) 
> phone company several years ago.  They weren't listening either.   That 
> way you can rate limit via ATM or by throttling the port administratively.
>
> Just a suggestion