On UUNET accounts it is very easy.
With a user name and password once it hits it limit you turn off the
account until it recycles.
With a standard ISP account it is not so easy unless you require them
to log in every time they access the account.
I have a cable account with Charter. They monitor my activity by the
MAC on my cable modem. If I change out modems, I have to let them
know so they can program the new MAC into their system to allow connectivity.
Secondly this cap is on all activity not just UUNET. Every web site,
and every email etc. So if you got large attachments (not possible
but suppose) this could also push you over the limit. Watch too many
movies from TIVO same thing. (More realistic. I see there is a box
now where you can download movies from TIVO and watch them on your TV.)
I personally think it is overkill, and they are going about it the
the wrong way.
This reminds of the letters I used tog et from my old dialup ISP
which sold see unlimited usage telling me I was staying connected to
long. (I had a separate line which my modem used and I just left it
connected.)
They are selling this so I expect some folks will go out and find new ISP's.
Stewart
At 01:25 PM 8/30/2008, you wrote:
*If a subscriber goes over the limit a second time within a six-month period
after getting a warning, Comcast will suspend the customer's account for a
year.*
Banned, suspended...the end result is the same. No connectivity for a year
from the ISP.
I'm wondering why not implement these things at the ISP, I have 25 gigs
available to me from forte news, when I hit 25 I can't access it anymore.
Why not do this? So in four days, when little jonny has downloaded his
quota of new music and movies, he doesn't get net access for the next 27
days.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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