The feature is called QoS, and is available on even the cheapest router. Torrenting can cause network issues, at least on crappy infrastructure, not because of bandwidth usage, but because it opens a lot of connections and can overload a router if it doesn’t have enough RAM.
Tracking down and firing someone to cover your corporate iT incompetence is certainly a choice.
Pretty sure they were fired for engaging in illegal activities on their work hardware, not for torrenting on a network that couldn’t handle it.
If it were a Linux ISO I’m sure it would have been a slap on the wrist and a “hey don’t do that again our network can’t handle it” but it was a film, Something the company can (theoretically) get in trouble for
Yeah we did have instruction place to be able to do legal torrents. Our programmers and IT department often downloaded ISO images firmware etc that were only available by a torrent.
Well you also have to remember this was about 10 years ago Network infrastructure isn’t quite what it is today. Not only that but when somebody does something illegal on a corporate network that is something that legal deals with and is not a choice that is made lightly.
The feature is called QoS, and is available on even the cheapest router. Torrenting can cause network issues, at least on crappy infrastructure, not because of bandwidth usage, but because it opens a lot of connections and can overload a router if it doesn’t have enough RAM.
Tracking down and firing someone to cover your corporate iT incompetence is certainly a choice.
Pretty sure they were fired for engaging in illegal activities on their work hardware, not for torrenting on a network that couldn’t handle it.
If it were a Linux ISO I’m sure it would have been a slap on the wrist and a “hey don’t do that again our network can’t handle it” but it was a film, Something the company can (theoretically) get in trouble for
Yeah we did have instruction place to be able to do legal torrents. Our programmers and IT department often downloaded ISO images firmware etc that were only available by a torrent.
Well you also have to remember this was about 10 years ago Network infrastructure isn’t quite what it is today. Not only that but when somebody does something illegal on a corporate network that is something that legal deals with and is not a choice that is made lightly.