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Originally Posted by bendsley
Do you have anything with the WAN accelerators? I'm presuming you're using PacketShaper from Packeteer? How do you like them? Do they seem to work well and do what they say they will?
I installed two Peribit WAN accelerators a few weeks ago on a trial basis and didn't really like them at all. That's why I'm interested. I need them to do VoIP and data shaping from USA to Costa Rica.
At the switchport, do students have 10 or 100mb links? When I was a network admin in college, I set everyone to 10mb links and then throttled individually to specific ports if needed.
Do you block default p2p program ports? I fed everything through SquidProxy before it hit the 2620 router I had.
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So far the Packeteer device works as expected. The nice thing is it adapts to whatever P2P software is doing (as long as it has the most recent signatures) REGARDLESS of what port it uses. Of course, we are always one step behind the new P2P stuff. Packeteer is good about updating the signatures regularly.
We gave up on port-based throttling a while back because most of the stuff port roams now anyway.
We are actually thinking about outsourcing the ResNet at this point (it looks like they'll get TimeWarner). Then it's not our problem anymore. Whoopee!