I’m working around social media tools and I’ve been curious about how network administrators handle TikTok traffic on MikroTik routers.
For networks where TikTok consumes a noticeable amount of bandwidth, what approach do you find most reliable?
Do you use address lists, firewall rules, queues, DNS based filtering, or another method?
I’m especially interested in approaches that can manage TikTok traffic without accidentally affecting other services that may share the same CDN infrastructure.
Do you have a homework assignment?
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One of the many declinations, which says that this is the usual AI survey, which wants us to be guinea pigs.
We need to have a serious, unfiltered conversation about the fundamental nature of our business. We need to talk about what an Internet Service Provider actually is, what a customer is paying for, and where our responsibilities begin and end. Because lately, it seems that many in this industry have forgotten the golden rule of commerce: the customer pays for a service, and it is their absolute right to use that service how they see fit.
Let us break this down to its most basic, undeniable truth. When a customer signs a contract with an ISP, they are not asking for a parent. They are not asking for a moral compass, a digital nanny, or a hall monitor. They are purchasing access. They are paying hard-earned money for a pipe—a digital pipeline that connects their home or business to the vast infrastructure of the global internet. Once that pipe is paid for, what flows through it is entirely up to the customer.
If a client pays for a 1-gigabit connection, they own the right to use that 1-gigabit connection to its absolute limit. Whether they are downloading massive datasets for research, streaming 4K video on ten different screens, hosting servers, gaming for twenty hours straight, or simply letting it sit idle—it does not matter. It is their bandwidth. They bought it. They paid the invoice. Therefore, they should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want with it.
Yet, what do we see across the industry today? We see data throttling. We see artificial limits placed on specific types of traffic. We see ISPs blocking legal protocols, restricting peer-to-peer networking, slowing down connection speeds during peak hours because they oversold their network capacity, and hidden fair-usage policies designed to punish the heaviest users. We see companies trying to dictate, manipulate, and control the user experience.
This is not just bad customer service; it is a violation of the foundational promise of the internet. It is a betrayal of the consumer.
Imagine if you rented an apartment, paid your landlord the full rent on the first of the month, and then the landlord walked in and told you that you are only allowed to sit on the couch for two hours a day. Imagine if they told you what rooms you could walk into, or turned off your electricity because you were using "too many appliances" that you already paid to power. You would call that landlord insane. You would take them to court. You would leave. Yet, this is exactly what ISPs do when they limit, shape, and throttle their clients' internet traffic.
If an ISP cannot handle the traffic, if their infrastructure is too weak to sustain the speeds they promised, if their business model relies on restricting the very people who fund their existence, then the solution is simple: fix the infrastructure or change your business.
Invest the profits back into fiber optic cables, better routing, and stronger data centers. Build a network that can actually deliver what you advertise. Do your job as an engineer and a provider. But do not blame the customer for using the service they bought. Do not penalize them for trusting your marketing.
We need to stop pretending that ISPs are curators of the internet. You are the gateway, not the gatekeeper. Your job is to move packets of data from point A to point B as quickly, efficiently, and neutrally as possible.
Let this be a final, clear warning to every telecom executive and network architect listening today: If your corporate strategy relies on limiting your customers, if you feel the urge to control what your clients do online, if you cannot tolerate a user utilizing 100% of the pipe they paid for, then you are in the wrong business.
If you want to control content, go work in television. If you want to monitor behavior, go work in law enforcement. If you want to restrict access, go manage a private museum. But get out of the internet service industry. Because if an ISP cannot let its clients do whatever they damn well please with the connection they paid for, it is time for that ISP to close its doors, step aside, and change jobs entirely.
why you approach OP question from ISP angle???
who said that OP is ISP?
there are some very valid situation where you do not want to expose tik-tok like services (fb, insta ...)
for example, at home, you want to disconnect your kids from these ... khhhm sites ...
or you are some kind of church like organization who make a summer camp, and you try to keep youngsters in nice manner, avoiding again, same ... khhmhmhm sites, etc
so, yes, question is valid
Haven't you noticed that it's the usual AI interview and there's no truth to the question?
We completely agree on this.
But I remind you that if parents can't keep their children away from fire and flames,
perhaps it's better if they don't give them matches and gasoline first.
If children are rude, it's always the fault of the parents who use smartphones like modern-day pacifiers,
because they prefer their children to be dumbfounded in front of those devices,
because parents are too busy to take pictures and update social... khhhm
Evidence of trolling. Please check yourself the first page for rosiecharles and lucianzayel: https://www.stopforumspam.com/country/PK/49
So ... to ban or not to ban, that is the question.??
They need to be blocked...
Closing topic and blocking AI type user.