But there is still a challenge, even if torrenting users pay a premium, they will still strain the network. The other none premium users still need guaranteed service. Fair usage policies would still be required....Safcom should speak to wananchi:-) Sent from my iPad On May 1, 2012, at 7:43 AM, John Gitau <jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
well note the following: Until a while back while Safaricom had an 'unlimited' bundle (not on through put) it was unlimited in the sense that you could cumulatively download as much as you want in a month, their biggest issue was I bet torrents.
Right now you'd be mad to do 45Gb downloads on Safaricom 3G, it would be too costly and I think/believe thats the best formula for dealing with 'torrent' guys. Have them pay for their usage.
Trying to block ports is just plain silly.
On the enterprise end, a good properly integrated bandwidth manager, linked to a billing system can also do some upper layer inspection and bill you appropriately. And yes there are open source tools for this too. Just alot of work to get them to do what you want. So yes encrypting traffic might help, running through VPN's might work too. However for those I would just enforce a very strict fair use policy if I were an SP.
This way even hiding behind TOR or some other fancy mechanism doesn't work around the fact that we only care about the data we see from you. It does however create interesting fun scenarios for net neutrality advocates:-) no Im not one of them - you better be paying for what you use:-)
another trick:-) run IPv6 in your home. I bet no one can inspect that yet.
Gitau
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Alex Nderitu <nderitualex@gmail.com> wrote: May be they have it. Just not using it yet. On Apr 30, 2012 8:22 PM, "John Doe" <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote: U wonder what solution they are using to thwart you guys that safaricom cannot get...
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On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:19 PM, "Kimani : TransTech \" Love For Tech Stuff\""<techstuff@transtech.co.ke> wrote:
Yes they are
From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of simon katumo Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 10:28 AM To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Torrenting using Zuku
zuku seems to be messing us up if there is a way kindly let us know
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