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Sometimes I really wish people got their internet bill and saw their peak vs. off-peak usage as something like megabits per second, just like they do with their
by chrismeller 7y ago
Sometimes I really wish people got their internet bill and saw their peak vs. off-peak usage as something like megabits per second, just like they do with their power bill in kilowatts per hour. You could even provide the same kind of "neighbors near you used" metrics.
Each measure could be based off of what the ISP has factored in for the "average" usage at a given time. It would be a purely synthetic number, but it would give people a better idea of exactly what they use, when, and how that compares.
- iptrans 7y agoYou can do this yourself with a $50 router. You’d have to ask your neighbor about their usage to get comparative metrics, tho.
- tialaramex 7y agoMy ISP provides me detailed traffic charts. For example on Monday night I lost link-layer service (as did a neighbour and perhaps my whole street, this isn't exactly the ideal time to go asking everybody in person) and I can see that on the chart, and then I can see the next night when I had a multi-way video conference with friends for several hours. Apparently in March 2019 I used a total of 106GB of download 25GB of upload, and this month so far is way below those numbers. This is biased by me working from home, so hour-long video conference calls aren't a new thing for me. The ISP's policy (for which they charge significantly more than a typical ISP in my country) is to "never be the bottleneck". If things are too slow it is never (intentionally) their fault. So that's one reason they provide these charts - you can see latency info in them, drop rates, everything.