What is the real reason for capping and traffic shaping? in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20234341 en Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:11:25 EDT Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:11:25 EDT Re: What is the real reason for capping and traffic shaping? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20235101 nanook :
said by beeker :

total amounts of bandwidth used, as 41GB is not a huge amount in our present internet world....

So what is the real reason for capping and traffic shaping?
Fine for the present but what is the rate of growth? If it doubles every few months then Bell and the other ISPs may simply be trying to forestall an impending bandwidth crunch that would impact everyone, including low-bandwidth users.

You cannot fault them for that (although you can for the way they are going about it.)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20235101 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:56:54 EDT What is the real reason for capping and traffic shaping? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20234341 anon : Quoted from a Bell/Sympatico notice recently posted in other forums had this info in it. As Bell/Sympatico would never release the actual numbers, Here is somewhat of an extrapolation.

"Important Usage Billing Changes
dated March 13, 2008"

"only 5% of our base exceeds 60GB/month. In fact 82% of customers stay under 10GB /month."

This leave 13% of customers using between 10 and 60GB/month.

So using the above info at worst case usages:
82 x 10GB = 820GB
13 x 60GB = 780GB

820GB + 780GB = 1600GB

1600GB/95 = 16.8 GB

In effect 95% of Sympatico's own user base average about 17GB a month at worst.

Now lets say the other 5% use 500GB a month on average per user:

5 x 500GB = 2500GB

1600GB + 2500GB = 4100GB

4100GB/100 = 41GB

so as per Bell/Sympatico's numbers: overall, I don't see a real issue here with total amounts of bandwidth used, as 41GB is not a huge amount in our present internet world....

So what is the real reason for capping and traffic shaping? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20234341 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:11:25 EDT