[99827] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Oct 5 12:48:01 2007
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 00:38:29 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200710051558.l95FwDXC022755@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
Adrian
