Ken, I think your restaurant analogy is off.  It is like the
restaurant only charging you for what they delivered to your table.  IMHO
that it the fair way to do it.  They only ordered one steak  Not their
fault the restaurant or its suppliers dropped the other one in the bin
before it got to them.

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 11:10 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> > For those of you doing UBB, do you bill based off of the bits coming
> > into your network destined for the customer, or the bits that actually
> > reach the customer?
> >
> > I was just looking at a new customer who must have been re-syncing his
> > gaming system, had his connection maxed out for about 40 hours. The CDN
> > delivering it must have been doing that connection stuffing thing.
> > Netflow data from the network edge showed that 30-40mb/s was destined
> > for his IP Address, but because of bandwidth queuing, only 20mb/s was
> > delivered to him (his package limit).
> >
> > How would you have billed this customer?  600GB of usage, or 330GB of
> usage?
>   330. Can't bill for what you didn't deliver.
>
> Jared
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