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 knightmbEverybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN | reply to birdfeedr
Re: haha said by birdfeedr:said by gorehound:i wish there was a way we could all do something about it Envision yourself not enslaved to the big ISP and start your own flat-rate ISP. Absent that, decide how you want to spend your broadband pennies and stick to your budget. Absent that, make friends with the people at the library, which will probably be the last bastion of (taxpayer-funded) free internet. Absent that, cut yourself free. Did that back in 2006, still doing unlimited flat-rate service. Truthfully, most customers don't care because they just check e-mail, you tube, play WOW, and surf websites. I have a few technical customers that enjoy the service for unlimited bandwidth and they exercise it daily. But it's amazing how smooth a network can run when you plan ahead for all the p2p, tv steaming customers ahead of time.
I have some customers churning out 1,000 simultaneous connections 24/7 via BitTorrent but it's not even noticeable on the service because well, we planned for that. Our focus was so much on connections and capacity that most customers will choke their own machines before they could ever choke our routers. Which we do have some that do that because of the *cough* Microsoft limitations that built into their TCP/IP stack code. I have seen some Linux customers burn up over 10,000 simultaneous connections before. Kind of funny to see the load list in the router logs with one IP address listed 10,000 times, LOL.
Not a big player like AT&T or Comcast *yet*, but if this keeps up, being the only ISP in town that doesn't bill by the byte is even more word of mouth advertising from our customers. 
Even have a project in the works to give away free Internet service at a much lower speed of course, but it would be kind of a free public Internet like a library but without time wasted on filters. 
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join:2004-04-22
Swayzee, IN | Do you buy your backbone at a flat rate or burstable using the 95th percentile rule?
I know flat rate is how customers want it now, but if you had to bill on usage would you rather bill per byte or using the 95th rule?
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said by knightmb:said by birdfeedr:i wish there was a way we could all do something about it most customers don't care because they just check e-mail, you tube, play WOW, and surf websites. If bandwidth usage were that low, bandwidth caps wouldn't matter. I wish there were some way a user could view their up-to-the minute bandwidth usage for the month. | |
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