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Active internet users don't like metered billing because they understand it is a ruse. If I use my connection at full capacity all day long, except during the
by dublinben 13y ago
Active internet users don't like metered billing because they understand it is a ruse. If I use my connection at full capacity all day long, except during the evening prime time, I might rack up several TB of data each month. I'm not causing any network congestion or costing the ISP any money though. The basic user who 'only' streams several shows on Netflix each evening might only use several dozen GB of data each month, but they cost the ISP much more in peak bandwidth congestion.
- M2Ys4U 13y agoSo have a peak rate and an off-peak rate. That's exactly what my ISP (Andrews and Arnold[0]) does. I pay for a specific number of 'units' which are consumed faster at peak times (09:00-18:00) than at all other times. A&A's policy[1] is to never be the bottleneck in the network and they also kick up a stink with their transit providers (mainly BT) when they detect a problem (which is very often, as they monitor their network's health closely). They even publish statistics[2] on dropped packets classified by their uplink - for instance over the last 28 days they have a 98.48% success rate at a 1-second granularity one of BT's backhauls, and 100% on TalkTalk's backhaul. They do work out to be more expensive than other ISPs (I pay ~£33 a month for a 40mbit FTTC connection with 4 units) but you pay for a good service and competence. [0] http://aaisp.net.uk/ http://aaisp.net.uk/ [1] http://aaisp.net.uk/broadband-speed.html http://aaisp.net.uk/broadband-speed.html [2] http://clueless.aa.net.uk/linkreport.cgi http://clueless.aa.net.uk/linkreport.cgi