@Tusker, am going to give you part of the solution, the rest cannot be on a silver plate, sorry..nothing personal. :-)

As an intermediate response, request your ISP to classify the traffic of your links with a proper QOS. This should be a value added service ISPs could be providing, unless they are not aware of such things. Define your traffic on both inbound/outbound and let them implement on their network. You will save yourself plenty here.

Over and Out.

Asante. :-)




On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:49 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Tusker, am just sharing my opinion here. I do apologise for my curt and blunt response here. Besides the few who know and have responded, am shocked that after reading your issue about torrents and bandwidth usage problems, no one and not even the so called "Open Source Product Specialists ( opps, sorry re-sellers )" have a freakin' clue what you need as a solution. All they know is what they can sell to you. 

Can you please ask them how their so called Open Source Magic products are going to work with the network problems you have? For a start, can anyone who is selling NTM products and knows TCP comment on my question.. How will your NTM product help resolve Torrents, incases where the traffic is encrypted and hopping on different ports numbers, say Port 80? Will they then recommend that you block http access?!!!

@Tusker, kindly do not spend any money without them actually responding in detail to your problem. 

Rgds. :-)