Mortman <carl.buckley@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

>1. Should servers interfere with the network (eg are Flood attacked),
>there will be a fee of $150 per hour of technicians time spent bringing
>the problem under control.

>This worries me, anyone can be flooded and at any time? Surely this is
>out of the control of the user? Sure running a server makes you a more
>likely target but isn't every one that doesn't have a NAT router?
>Internal ADSL modems without a firewall can be ping flooded?

This does worry me a little tiny bit, you don't need to be running a server,
and in the case of an external router modem, you don't even have to have a
normal computer switched on to be the target of a flood attack.

>2. Limits on the connection. (If your usage is > 7 gigs of non gaming
>trafic a month the connection may be terminated with 1 months notice.)

>I'm unlikely to go over this level of usage but was wondering if you
>send warning emails to the user when approaching the 6gb mark?

I managed to run into this one. My brother went mental on directconnect and
ran up 14GB... we got a hand signed letter through the post notifying us of
probable disconnection one month hence. I kicked my brother off the net
(he hadn't payed me for it, and amazingly that was about 3 months ago - he
hasn't used it at all at home...), and they didn't cut me off :-)

>3. Napster and FTP get low priority

>This doesn't make sense to me? Surely a $5 cheaper service doesn't mean
>I'm reduced to modem speed again?

I find that this isn't true at all.. In fact, FTP to local sites can
completely saturate my connection :-( I don't use napster, but I ocasionally
use Gnutella, and my brother never complained about Direct Connect.

It would be nice if FTP was a low priority for my incomming connection. I'm
guessing that they are talking about low priority on their incomming
connections.

Web internet doesn't have bandwidth problems in my experiance, I've never
noticed slow ftp from good sites....

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Tom Parker - tom@carrott.org
           - http://www.carrott.org
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