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Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:04:17 -0500 (CDT)
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007, Joe Greco wrote:Technically the user can use the connection to it's maximum theoretical speed as much as they like, however, if an ISP has a quota set at 12G/month, it just means that the cost is passed along to them when they exceed it.And that seems like a bit of the handwaving. Where is it costing the ISP more when the user exceeds 12G/month?No, its that they've run the numbers and found the users above 12G/month are using a significant fraction of their network capacity for whatever values of signficant and fraction you define.
Of course, that's obvious. The point here is that if your business is so fragile that you can only deliver each broadband customer a dialup modem's worth of bandwidth, something's wrong with your business. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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- RE: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?, (continued)
- RE: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? michael.dillon (Oct 05)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Adrian Chadd (Oct 05)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Ron da Silva (Oct 05)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 05)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joel Jaeggli (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Tony Finch (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Adrian Chadd (Oct 05)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 05)
- RE: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? andrew2 (Oct 05)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mark Newton (Oct 05)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mark Newton (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Randy Bush (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? James Spenceley (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 06)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Martin Barry (Oct 07)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Adrian Chadd (Oct 07)