local network bandwidth killers

[Colin McGregor]

--- Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Teddy David Mills wrote:
> > We have people on a local network that waste huge
> bandwidth by going 
> > to these sites like youtube and others and playing
> online mpegs and 
> > videos.
> > What are some ways to prevent such frivilious
> waste of bandwidth ? (be 
> > aware, these people do whatever they want)

> You can use the router and set up URL or domain
> blocking.
> 
> You could even have a bit of fun by routing requests
> for some sites 
> through a local "proxy" along the lines of that
> suggested at the 
> Upside-Down-Ternet site 
>
(http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html).
>  :-)

The above approach, tossing everyone at the KittenWar
website, or playing games with all images is fine
(could even be fun) in a home setting where you want
to be nasty towards outright bandwidth thieves.

Another approach, one easier to justify in a business
setting is traffic shaping. In summary, everyone can
get full access to the net, but the bandwidth pigs get
stepped on.

A summary of traffic shaping can be seen here:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_shaping

In other words you don't stop the Youtube people, you
just make sure that after a short while the quality of
service sucks so bad it isn't worth using... :-) .


Colin McGregor
VE3ZAA

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