The mobile guys also limit video resolution, I don’t know how they do it from a technical perspective, but for example AT&T has 3 “unlimited” plans – Starter, Extra and Elite. They say Starter and Elite limit streaming to standard def, and only Elite can stream in high def.
It also seems streaming services will use whatever bandwidth is available to increase video quality. The customer may not notice the difference. Which means they may also not notice if you throttle their video speed. Like there was an article complaining that 4K quality games with Google Stadia doesn’t look as good as 4K on a console. I hope Stadia falls on its face, but honestly, I look at the images in the article that are supposed to show the big difference in quality, and I can barely see it. Maybe because I’m not a gamer I don’t appreciate the difference. Is it coincidence that the image in question is of Lara Croft’s butt? Is that what this is all about? https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/18/20970297/google-stadia-review-gaming-streaming-cloud-price-specs-features-chrome-pixel From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mark - Myakka Technologies Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 5:34 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] UBB - Usage Based Billing WAS: tired of entitled streamers Kurt, We used to do UBB on our wireless system. Most people were fine with it. Had a few grumpy people as always. Didn't scale well, got out of hand rapidly as customer base grew. Currently on our fiber system we do the "unlimited" the cell guys invented. You have unlimited Internet with no extra charges. Once you go over a threshold we will throttle the speeds back. We throttle the user down one package. If they are on the 50 Mbps package they get throttle down to the 25 Mbps package. Still very usable for most people. Someone on the 100 Mbps package would drop to 75 Mbps. Most people won't even notice that. We have always kept a perceived value on bytes for our customers. I'm also a firm believer in tracking bandwidth to the user even if you don't do UBB. Our customers have 3 months worth of usage they can drill down to the hour.. We are using radius accounting, so data is almost live. -- Best regards, Mark <mailto:m...@mailmt.com> mailto:m...@mailmt.com Myakka Technologies, Inc. <http://www.Myakka.com> www.Myakka.com ------ Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 5:55:45 PM, you wrote: Is anyone else doing Usage Based Billing? Or Peak UBB? We have noticed in the last 6 months huge exponential increases of streaming adoption especially between 6pm-midnight. Its almost getting unmanageable and we are even using a Procera device. Problem is >50% of all traffic after 6pm is streaming and it doesn't matter we would pretty much have to block all other non-streaming traffic between those hours just to make room for the streaming demand. So we in essence have to design the network to perform during a peak window between 7pm-midnight and it just doesn't make financial sense for the network to be sitting there not being used 19 hours of the day. 100% of all new signups are asking us if we are "Unlimited" which has been a huge selling point for us. Has anyone made the jump to UBB and what was the reaction? My initial thoughts are first 500GB free and after that $10 for each block of 100GB past the first 500GB. Other factors are do we give free data between midnight-6pm so not penalizing people that are not using during peak hours? Really, Really curious to hear if anyone has made the jump and what customer reaction has been. Something has got to happen....
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