Re: Bear share (and the like), Steels Bandwidth

  • From: "Shane Mullins" <tsmullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 08:31:23 -0400

Hey Tim,

    You could deny outbound access to whatever port BearShare runs on.

Shane


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Guy" <Tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 4:59 AM
Subject: [isalist] Bear share (and the like), Steels Bandwidth


> http://www.ISAserver.org
>
>
> Customers have commented, and yesterday I seam to have the same problem,
or
> though it could have been a cable issue.
>
> Isa server. Two computers. 512k cable modem. One computer fires up
Bearshare
> and grabs most of the bandwidth. The second machine runs slower than a
> dialup modem on everything it tries's to do.
>
> I dropped the Bearshare machine down to 5 on its bandwidth setting (in Isa
> Management), still no change. Only way I could ramp up the other machines
> connection was to drop the Bearshare machine off the network.
>
> A couple of other customers have commented on the same thing. Admittedly
> with ISDN links, ADSL. Nothing that can hand up and down stream at the
same
> speeds.
>
> I'm resigned to the fact that it's the sharing software fault, but I
thought
> limiting the bandwidth would have solved some of the problem.
>
> Comments?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
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