[PLUG-TALK] Another blow to Internet free design.

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:39:15PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> In another seemingly unrelated post to the main list, I asked about
> restricting the bandwidth drawn from my 15Mbps FIOS to feed my PTP node;
> I was seeing DMZ rates approaching 80 megabytes per minute, which was
> affecting my backups and VOIP latency and other uses.  By dialing the
> PTP DMZ feed down to 20 Mbyte per minute with tc(), I got my feed back. 

That's some serious traffic. 

> I never thought about /what/ the traffic was (I don't spy on users) but

High level top talker metrics would not constitute spying. 
You may be feeding Windows upgrades. 
It's better to know.

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