Broadband Subscriber Management
Charles Wyble
charles at thewybles.com
Wed Apr 22 17:46:47 UTC 2009
Quite a bit of overhead. Good article here:
http://blog.ioshints.info/2009/03/adsl-overhead.html
Curtis Maurand wrote:
>
> I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down
> the port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs
> bandwidth and has huge management overhead when you have to disconnect a
> customer. I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch)
> phone company several years ago. They weren't listening either. That
> way you can rate limit via ATM or by throttling the port administratively.
>
> Just a suggestion
>
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