Last time I was looking for an ISP I found things to be really
inconsistent. Some ISPs do include up and down traffic as the same.
Freedom2surf had a policy of 50 GB down or up, but only during peek
time. So if you left your downloads over night (1am to 5am) you'd be
fine as the bandwidth would not count towards your quota. Not sure if
the policy has changed since they were bought up. Other ISPs would only
charge you between 8am and 9pm. Not sure about protocol overhead, but at
least f2s provide you with a way of checking on their site how much was
left in your quota. Others with such "N GB" limit policies don't
actually provide you a way to see your quota or won't even warn you when
you are coming close to it (think Virgin just caps you).
Would be interesting to see if someone could produce that info.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com has some details on what each ISP provides
but doesn't go into too much detail. It doesn't tell you what is
classified as part of your bandwidth usage, or times when you are
charged or not.
-C.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 10 April 2008 05:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC tells ISPs to get stuffed
I'm much of the feeling that an Internet Service Provider should
Provide a Internet Service. Hence, as they say, the name. If they want
to provide a Walled Garden with Limited Access to the Internet then they
should call it that and everyone can go, "urgh an AOL" and leave them
well alone!
Has anyone done any research into these "N GB" limits? Do they
include up and down traffic? Does it include the protocol overhead, and
if so, which protocol overheads?
