I'd really like to know why their computers are even online. I could see in the doctor offices and maybe a computer lab to check e-mails etc. But really they should just buy hosting from a company and wire their hospital up on a fiber optics WAN, or even just a LAN if they don't need to multiple hospitals up. Hell I'm pretty sure even wal mart just uses a fiber optic WAN to connect all the stores up (at least in canada).
If you've taken a cisco course you'd know that bandwidth is just the theoretical max your line will be able to do. Things like distance from the ISP and packet loss will slow down your internet. So really you'll rarely if ever hit your maximum bandwidth, and thats the way its supposed to be. If you were to sue your isp over this, I'm sure the contract you signed says they reserve the right to change anything in the contract. Sadly that would include blocking any port on their router.
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I'd really like to know why their computers are even online. I could see in the doctor offices and maybe a computer lab to check e-mails etc. But really they should just buy hosting from a company and wire their hospital up on a fiber optics WAN, or even just a LAN if they don't need to multiple hospitals up. Hell I'm pretty sure even wal mart just uses a fiber optic WAN to connect all the stores up (at least in canada).
If you've taken a cisco course you'd know that bandwidth is just the theoretical max your line will be able to do. Things like distance from the ISP and packet loss will slow down your internet. So really you'll rarely if ever hit your maximum bandwidth, and thats the way its supposed to be. If you were to sue your isp over this, I'm sure the contract you signed says they reserve the right to change anything in the contract. Sadly that would include blocking any port on their router.