We were once again present at Barcamp Sydney on November 15, at UNSW’s Roundhouse. Liam brought in his Meraki with a booster antena, so we promptly recruited him to keep an eye out for things on the network. We started out unthrotled, using the university’s network, but it turned out some people were abusing it, so we had to throttle it down to 512down/92up, which is unfortunate for everyone else.
I have to remind myself to prepare something next time, some folders or posters maybe, to get people to play nice. If they need a connection to stream video or live podcasts, then they can talk to us, so we know, and even maybe set up a separate network. Else, if we see any p2p traffic happening, we block access for those devices. If people then see that they are being blocked, and they don’t know why, they can talk to us. It might then very well be that they’ve got a trojan, and are part of a botnet…
And I blame myself too for not being prepared enough, and having Free Australia Wireless promo material ready. I was pre-occupied with my own presentation earlier in the week. We do need to convert more new souls…