Look I'm sure we're barking up the same tree.
- customer buys managed services, wants torrents blocked: they get it, any ISP would do that.
- you pay for plain vanilla 'Internet service'; you deal with your issues.
The person starting this thread had a clear requirement, what is a good firewall to buy? Not which sort of service to buy.
Safaricom, uunet,wananchi etc will all happily take your money and manage the service for you.
Other third parties will also help SME's with such services. Heck im soon going to be playing in that very market. Most people can handle it for themselves, such mailing lists are supposed to help them run them if they want.
This thread specifically asked about buying a firewall. We all seem to have assumed that he has not asked his ISP, or thought of ACL's. We have probably generated more noise than answers. The debate is however not bad, I'm just saying staying on thread topic helps the original poster.
ISP's have no business assuming you don't want torrents, or porn even.
Gitau
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@John, QOS/IDS/NTM should be managed services, and from an ISP point of view , a no brainer. You know this very well, net neutrality has nothing to do with managed services. If a Corporate client runs on a public IP, registered well and then someone in their network runs Torrents, this raises all sorts of legal issues. The entire Corporate can be sued for piracy just because some idiot cannot afford to rent movies though its probably because of the greed culture. The risks exposes many corporates to legal risks, and Edge solutions cannot fix this problem. But so far, all that is happening is the reseller devices market grown on ignorance. None of the Edge corporates can afford the proper devices that are needed, why they don't push for managed services is all down to the skill & consumerism mentality. That's all am saying, again my apology for the bluntness. :-)
Cheers.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:07 PM, John Gitau
<jgitau@gmail.com> wrote:
ISP's that do QOS, for Internet connections? The closest you'll get is an ISP that maybe has pre-configured classes for you. I don't believe anyone is currently offering this as a service for the masses. Small ISP's wouldn't even survive in such an environment. The net neutrality debate revolves around just this sort of thing.
So it's not that isp's don't offer QOS, they don't do it because unless you ask for it, you won't get it.
Gitau
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