davidjneff
join:2005-09-19
Stevenson, WA
| reply to JohnSmith2
Re: Rolling 30 Day: The Truth
I was actually semi-joking with my post about the rolling FAP giving us more bandwidth. Even though in theory you could get a few extra gig a year with the rolling FAP, in practice, the psychology of it means none of us will want to get close to the FAP, since as you pointed out, once you are FAPped, it can be a while to get it back. At least with the old FAP, you knew you were golden first of the month.
But it all depends on your usage pattern. With the old FAP, if you could in theory download your entire FAP within the first few days, and also have to wait for weeks for the new month.
I agree that for most folks, the rolling FAP will result in lower bandwidth usage in practice. But I really do think it was an attempt to even out bandwidth usage more, which really is a sensible thing to do and actually in our best interests.
Algebra models like we used are an approximation. In reality I think some monte carlo simulations would be necessarily to figure out probability distributions of fapping and time to unfapping  |
