The way I see it is if 20% of your customers use 90% of your cost, removing 20% of your revenue is worth dropping costs to 10%.
On 2/14/10, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 23:30 -0500, Josh Luthman wrote: >> It doesn't make sense to simply disallow it - offer a bandwidth plan >> that makes you both happy. If you can't resolve it then he has >> another ISP. Let them deal with the problem. >> >> If he pays for 1 meg and does it all the time we both know that's the >> kind of customer that kills your profit and therefor your business. >> You and I are WISPs to make money and serve the area - this can't be >> done when someone is paying 25/mo and ruining it for everyone. > > There are ways to accomplish the "best of both worlds" here. My new QOS > approach allows you to permit the traffic, even if you limit it's impact > by setting a speed limit, and still allow good speeds for other users. > One thing that you cannot fix with QOS is the reality that torrents are > very high packet rates (usually) and (also usually) not very high > bandwidth per connection. My approach, still, is to allow it, but set > limits on it's impact on the network. Give it a small amount of > bandwidth that is shared by other users with the same type of network > utilization and let them have at it. All in all, though, I agree with > Josh. The 5-10% of abusers (most cases, it's not even that many) are > not worth what they pay. However, it will get to a point where that > number goes to 20-30% when certain services (like the streaming video) > become more popular. When that happens, it's not a good business > decision to simply drop the traffic and lose 20% of your business. > Thinking of these things makes me happy I'm no longer an ISP. I really > do think that you'll find that the QOS system I've developed will be > very helpful, though. > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * > ******************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
