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Thursday 5 April 2012

Can you help me stop the bandwidth leeches at my pub's free Wi-Fi hot spot?

Happy Friday! A quick announcement to start: We just opened a Windows 8 forum for you to discuss and browse all the happenings around this pre-release OS. It's still in the beta-testing phase, but let's get started early as there is a lot of buzz around it already. Enjoy!

A couple of weeks back, we presented the newsletter topic from Robert F., "E-mail account compromised. How do I stop the spammers?" and he has graciously written a thank you note. Robert, thanks for following up with us!

Now let's get cracking on how we can help Andrew. He owns a pub that offers free Wi-Fi, but is having problems with bandwidth leeches, causing not only a strain on his bandwidth, but also possibly increasing his cost from his ISP due to exceeding usage.

Well, Andrew, many members have come to help. The recommendations varied from setting up software or firewalls and managing people's use (limiting bandwidth or password-protect) to calling on professional services to help set up a service for you. The solution that I personally thought was great is to use software that will password-protect Wi-Fi access. Sure it's a little inconvenient for your customers to enter a password to gain access to your Wi-Fi, but this will allow only your customers to use it, and bandwidth leeches outside the pub won't be able to gain access.

So, check out all the great recommendations in the discussion thread, and Andrew, when you do come to a solution that works for your business, please update us here. Good luck! Thanks to all who shared their wealth of knowledge. Have an awesome Easter weekend!

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