Re: OT Sharing a Broadband Connection

["Shaf Ali" <shaf@xxxxxxxx>]

Has been answered further up....

But just to re-iterate.... A 1meg line does not imply bi-direction 1Meg
usage - it's more like 1m down .256up...

All it would take is 1 user to upload a 4Meg powerpoint presentation like
for example sending as an attachment by email and the whole network will be
crippled/slowed all be it for 15-30 seconds.

Even worse is to take the example of a single P2P client misconfigured to
allow uploads and that too would slow things down for the rest of the
hamlet.

If you do want to proceed then I would recommend you also do some form of
bandwidth shaping and control for the uplink... Protect the uplink and
you'll be fine but upfortunately it's not easy.... Maybe someone could
recommend a router which has an easy config manager to allow for this.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracey Gardner" <tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT Sharing a Broadband Connection


> We all exist reasonably happily on dial-up at the moment and none of
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> > btw you do realise the bandwidth implications of sharing a tiny
dsl line
> > between 5 households right ? (It wont be worth it)
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