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Silver Bay , Beaver Bay , Illgen , Finland and Little Marais Wireless Fair Access Policy (FAP)  

Revison 5

As of 6/1/2007 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 Silver Bay , Beaver Bay , Illgen , Finland and Little Marais wireless customers.

The Wireless Fair Access Policy allows for a 7.5 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:  

1. The customer can “burst” up to 1,500 kbps for about 40 seconds.  There are two 1,500 kbps T1’s available on the backbone network.  Therefore, the maximum throughput will be 1,500 kbps.
   
2. After 7.5 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 7.5 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 2,000 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.

EXAMPLES:  Based on the following bandwidth levels, here is the amount of time it would take to download 7.5 Mb before your connection is set to 256 kbps.

Maximum Throughput: 1,500 kbps = 40 seconds.

Maximum Throughput: 1,000 kbps = 60 seconds.

Maximum Throughput: 800 kbps = 1.25 minutes.

Maximum Throughput: 500 kbps = 2 minutes.

Maximum Throughput: 300 kbps = 3.3 minutes.

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 225 kbps upstream/downstream. In other words, all P2P protocols running on the system at any given time will not exceed 225 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

Networks, protocols and applications

• Ares: Ares Galaxy, Warez P2P
• BitTorrent: AllPeers, ABC [Yet Another BitTorrent Client], Azureus, BitComet, BitSpirit, BitTornado, BitLord, BitTorrent, BitTorrent.Net, Burst!, G3 Torrent, mlMac, MLDonkey, QTorrent, Shareaza, Transmission, Tribler, µTorrent
• CSpace: a peer-to-peer based communications system
• Direct Connect network: DC++, NeoModus Direct Connect, BCDC++, StrongDC++
• Domain Name System
• eDonkey2000: aMule, eDonkey2000, eMule, LMule, MLDonkey, mlMac, Shareaza, xMule, iMesh
• FastTrack: giFT, Grokster, iMesh (and its variants stripped of adware including iMesh Light), Kazaa (and its variants stripped of adware such as Kazaa Lite), KCeasy, Mammoth, MLDonkey, mlMac, Poisoned
• Freenet: Entropy (on its own network), Freenet
• GNUnet: GNUnet, (GNUnet-gtk)
• Gnutella: Acquisition, BearShare, BetBug, Cabos, Gnucleus, Grokster, iMesh, gtk-gnutella, Kiwi Alpha, LimeWire, FrostWire, MLDonkey, mlMac, Morpheus, Phex, Poisoned, Swapper, Shareaza, XoloX
• Gnutella2: Adagio, Caribou, Gnucleus, iMesh, Kiwi Alpha, MLDonkey, mlMac, Morpheus, Shareaza, TrustyFiles
• Kad Network (using Kademlia protocol): aMule, eMule, MLDonkey
• MANOLITO/MP2P: Blubster, Piolet, RockItNet
• MFPnet: Amicima
• Napster: Napigator, OpenNap, WinMX
• P2PTV type networks: TVUPlayer, CoolStreaming, Cybersky-TV, TVants
• Peercasting type networks: PeerCast, IceShare, FreeCast
• Usenet
• WPNP: WinMX, WinZO
• other networks: ANts P2P, Applejuice, AsagumoWeb, Audiogalaxy, Avalanche, CAKE, Chord, The Circle, Coral, Dijjer, EarthStation 5, FileTopia, FotoSwap, Groove, Hamachi, iFolder, konspire2b, Madster/Aimster, MUTE, OpenExt, OpenFT, P-Grid, IRC, JXTA, KoffeePhoto, Peersites, MojoNation, Mnet, Octoshape, Overnet, PixVillage, Scour, Skype, Solipsis, soribada, Soulseek, SPIN, Swarmcast, WASTE, Winny

An earlier generation of peer-to-peer systems were called "metacomputing" or were classed as "middleware". These include: Legion, Globus, Condor, ByteTornado

Multi-network applications

• aMule (eDonkey network, Kad Network) (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows and Solaris Operating Environment) (open source)
• eMule (eDonkey network, Kad Network) (Windows) (open source)
• FileScope (Gnutella, Gnutella2, eDonkey network, OpenNAP) (crossplatform) (open source)
• giFT (own OpenFT protocol, and with plugins - FastTrack, eDonkey and Gnutella) (open source)
• Gnucleus (Gnutella, Gnutella2) (Windows) (open source)
• iMesh (Fasttrack, eDonkey Network, Gnutella, Gnutella2) (Microsoft Windows) (closed source)
• iSwipe (Hotline, Napster, OpenNapster, Gnutella, Carracho, OpenFT, iTunes, eDonkey, FastTrack, BitTorrent, Ares) (Mac) (closed source)
• KCeasy (Ares, FastTrack (plugin required), Gnutella, OpenFT) (open source)
• Kiwi Alpha (Gnutella, Gnutella2) (Windows) (closed source)
• MLDonkey (BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Kademlia) (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) (open source)
• Morpheus (NEO Network, Gnutella, Gnutella2, BitTorrent) (Windows) (closed source)
• Napshare (MUTE, Key Network) (Linux, Windows) (open source)
• Shareaza (BitTorrent, eDonkey, Gnutella, Gnutella2) (Windows) (open source)
• WinMX (Windows) (mxpie.com) (Currently shut down)
• Zultrax (Gnutella, ZEPP) (Windows) (closed source)