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Revised 1/30/2008
Two
Harbors,
Wales
and
Duluth
Township
Wireless Fair Access Policy (FAP)
As of 11/7/2006 Cooperative Light & Power (CLP)
has installed hardware that will ensure quality of service and fair access
for all of our wireless broadband customers. This hardware currently
affects all
Two
Harbors
,
Wales
and
Duluth
Township
wireless customers.
The Wireless Fair Access Policy allows for a 15 MB
upload or download before the customers’ connection is set to 256 kbps. For
reference, a dialup connection is 54 kbps. It
works as follows:
The
customer can “burst” up to 2,500 kbps for 30 seconds.There is 4,500 kbps available on the backbone network.Most wireless customers’ antennas will only transmit a
maximum of 2,500-3,000 kbps.
After
30 seconds of bursting the customer will be reduced to a maximum of
600 kbps.The customer
will remain at 600 kbps until the remainder of the 15 MB limit is
transferred. (about 80 seconds)
After
the remainder of the 15 MB is transferred the customer will be reduced
to a maximum of 256 kbps for the remainder of the download or upload.The customer will then be reset to full bursting (Rule 1) after
5 minutes of averaging below 200 kbps.
So, again, during the ramp down period you can
download or upload 15 MB before your connection will be set to 256 kbps. If
you are just surfing the Internet, you should never be under control.
When overall network usage is above 4,200 kbps for 60
seconds, the FAP Device sets a threshold at which every session on the
network is automatically slowed until an equilibrium is reached. Flows are
reduced, sessions are paced, all in a very economical way that doesn't
require much processing power, and it’s done in a very fair way.
SUMMARY:Depending on your antennas maximum throughput, the best case
scenario will be after 2 minutes of downloading your connection will be
set to 256 kbps.
The FAP Device also has the ability to limit the
above rules to defined time periods as well as monitor and control daily
and monthly bandwidth transfer, although CLP has decided not to implement
these features at this time.
In addition to the rules listed above, Peer to Peer
Networking (P2P) protocols will now be limited system-wide to 160 kbps
upstream/downstream. In other words, all P2P protocols running on the
system at any given time will not exceed 160 kbps in either direction.
We had to do this because of the abusive nature of this protocol and to
benefit the majority of customers. The specific list of filtered P2P
protocols are listed below:
PEER
TO PEER PROTOCOLS CONTROLLED ON THE WIRELESS NETWORK
An
earlier generation of peer-to-peer systems were called "metacomputing"
or were classed as "middleware". These include: Legion,
Globus, Condor,
ByteTornado
