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Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?)
From: woods () weird com (Greg A. Woods)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 12:56:54 (-0400), Travis Pugh wrote: ]
Subject: Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) The one that surprises me is that carriers haven't introduced the concept of "off-peak" billing.
I don't know about the carriers, but some of the littler 2nd and 3rd tier guys are billing at 95th percentile because that's how they are billed upstream. I too would think that if you're actually paying a fixed rate for a fixed-rate pipe then you'd be far more interested in filling the valleys, so to speak. I know some broadband providers who are in that boat, but they don't want to also do what it would take to attract the traffic that would fill their valleys. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods () acm org> <woods () robohack ca> Planix, Inc. <woods () planix com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods () weird com>
Current thread:
- How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Sean Donelan (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg A. Woods (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Leo Bicknell (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Travis Pugh (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg A. Woods (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Mike Leber (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Travis Pugh (Apr 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Sean Donelan (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg A. Woods (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Eric A. Hall (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Sean Donelan (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg Maxwell (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg A. Woods (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Richard A. Steenbergen (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Richard A. Steenbergen (Apr 20)