| How about something like this: Now, I'll admit I didn't read all the comments, so if this was already suggested, feel free to mock me to no end.
I use a small regional cable company who, despite having some latency issues, provides great reliable, fast cable modem for a reasonable price. Even the latency issues are come and go. Anyhow, to the point.
There are tons of users on the lower speed tier (I'm on 10/2, there are tiers all the way down to 1.5). Why not allow the large bandwidth users USE that bandwidth, as, especially in this case, most people are just surfing the web and checking their email? My downloading, even maxed out, is not going to interfere with their daily weather report check.
So I propose a slight reverse, leave the priority levels alone *until* the users who are low usage users have a spike in bandwidth requirements (Joe Blow decides he's going to legally download something large, who knows, I'm just spitballing here). Then, take the heavy user and lower the priority. That way, the people who use a lot don't need to worry about it UNLESS there is a higher demand, not just an arbitrary reduction in speed during times XYZ because some jack who never uses 1/10th of his bandwidth is on his computer? |
