[186929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Buie)
Sun Jan 10 05:51:48 2016
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 05:51:44 -0500
From: Alex Buie <alex.buie@frozenfeline.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Ugh, I had to deal with this almost daily at $large_metered_us_carrier. We
have WiFi hotspots and USB modems and inevitably the customers who usually
use <2GB and have plans based on that usage got slapped with huge Windows
10 overages. Explaining that no, your "geebee" meter isn't broken,
Microsoft just shafted you got so tiring, especially when they don't have
the faintest clue what Windows Update or data or anything of the sort mean,
just barely enough to sign into their AOL account and check the weather.
The bad part is how aggressively Microsoft is downloading it to your HD
even if you don't accept it. (See Windows.BT folder, &c)
I am "eagerly" awaiting the next wave of update renaming/repushing.
> On Jan 9, 2016 2:57 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:12:16 -0600, Mike Hammett said:
>> > Bytes uploaded and\or downloaded. That's all that should matter.
Initiated by
>> > you or not.
>>
>> You want to be the one explaining to your customer that the reason they
>> got charged for 20G of unexpected transfer was because their 3 Windows 8
>> machines each downloaded Windows 10 without telling them?
