[99832] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Oct 5 14:46:16 2007
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: adrian@creative.net.au (Adrian Chadd)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:04:17 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20071005163828.GM2201@skywalker.creative.net.au> from "Adrian Chadd" at Oct 06, 2007 12:38:29 AM
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.
Of course, that's obvious. The point here is that if your business is so
fragile that you can only deliver each broadband customer a dialup modem's
worth of bandwidth, something's wrong with your business.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
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