Slingshot

[iYRe]

Clearly, every time I read a post in this section from you it's either mostly wrong, or completely wrong, or slanted with some queer arse bias that results in bad advice.

And I will... it'll be a a TB this month or damn close to it.

right.. that's because you're an expert.. and I'm not...

As long as you're happy.. I'm happy..

[St_Gabriel]

I havent really had too much of a reliability issue with Slingshot, customer service however is another story.

Speed has been fine, was downloading a linux distro last night, was called game hunger or something... and was achieving a speed of 1.9 MB a sec, not bad for the 1.3/1.4 gig file. I have 8 hours a day of free download with a 40gig plan, set your torrent program of choice to run in the free download time and cap shouldnt be an issue.

[chrisht]

Slingshot...worst experience of a provider we have ever had - slow,inconsistent & not shy to charge over the odds.Signed up in October last year & at first was awesome..lasted about three months before started having issues & cannot get any sense from anyone!Waste of time, now looking at alternatives....

[iYRe]

FWIW

If you are using some kind of packet inspection/management system (such as a CISCO SCE or similar), what you do is this:
Divide up your pools of bandwidth appropriately. Include two pools for VPN - one for "normal" users, and one crippled pool.
Include in your daily reports the top bandwidth users in "VPN-NORMAL" - remove them and put them in "VPN-ABUSERS". You have now crippled their ability to download.

This works for any identifiable packet type.

"Appropriate use for a VPN connection is generally accessing office internal networks for files, mail, and so forth. This does not generally include downloading huge quantities of data." (not an official statement from anyone).