Ask DSLReports.com: Will ISPs Bill By The Byte? > Not going to happen

reply to openbox9

Re: Not going to happen

Hmm, I don't seem to have anywhere near the problem that you speak of. I've got 10 actively managed e-mail accounts and I get maybe 20 SPAM messages per week total. Everything else is filtered at my mail server and never sees my ISP's network. I've tested my ability to hammer my ISP's connection over a month's time by firing up my BT client and downloading/uploading as much crap as I could reasonably spend time searching for and I was only able to transfer a total of about 300 GB. That included me initiating two or three "Linux ISO" downloads before work and two or three "Linux ISO" downloads after work every day and then letting the uploads continue until I reached at least a 2:1 ratio. Only 300 GB during my test. How people can continue to justify insane amounts of data transfers per month (or utilize what they're downloading) and continue to blame these transfers on the reasons that continue to be abused is beyond me. So, I still believe that a usage-based model is the way to maintain consumer costs and levy costs of expanding infrastructure to those who are using the infrastructure. Pay for what you use...what a strange concept.