Archive for February, 2010

  • Never gonna give you up!

    Date: 2010.02.18 | Category: networking, tech•ed 2009 | Response: 44

    helpdeskWe mentioned in a previous post (see BitTorrent, traffic shaping and trusting users) that we had a small number of users who were unfairly monopolising network resources in order to download files via BitTorrent. The whole thing was a bit sad for me personally as I took it as a bit of a depressing display of the bad parts of human nature taking advantage of our deliberately liberal and generous policies on network access. We’ve been running the network the same way since 2004 and this is the first time we’ve seen people take advantage of it this way. Read the rest of this entry »

  • BitTorrent, traffic shaping and trusting users

    Date: 2010.02.17 | Category: networking, tech•ed 2009 | Response: 1

    It has been a while since we have posted. We had the best intentions of writing a series of wrap up posts (JO has some overdue videos I made for him!) but after living in the convention centre for three weeks we were all really exhausted. The fact that tech•ed 2010 planning is already well underway means we sort of need to wrap up the 2009 blog loose end (that and I recently posted to the ausdotnet mailing list that you have to be careful allocate enough time to a blog so it doesn’t become abandonware – only to have two people mail me and say “What? Like TechEd Backstage??” :) )

    Anyway, I wanted to write a bit about a particular position I advocate each year and how disappointing to was to see that position abused by a very small number of network users to the detriment of other users at peak usage times. Read the rest of this entry »

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