On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Gary Thornock wrote: > The 100 GB per month cap is imposed by Utopia
Not true. Xmission imposes the 100GB monthly quota and will happily sell more bits to their UTOPIA users for a fee. You can read all about it here: http://www.xmission.com/cgi-bin/announcements?num=151.new.tiered.service.on.utopia Xmission also meters their UTOPIA users around the clock; on UTOPIA there is no such thing as a quota-free overnight period. Here's what Xmission support wrote me (typos and all) when I inquired about it in May, 2006: ----------------------------------------------------------------- XMission is not currently able to offer unmeetered 'free download' times to our customers on the UTOPIA network. The reason for this is becuase XMission is charged for every packet communicated over the UTOPIA network. With this being the case we are currently not able to offer unmeetered traffic to our customers, and the metered traffic quotas of 100 gigabytes per month for combined upload and download will be in effect after we send out an announcement notifying users. All our best XMission Tech SUpport ----------------------------------------------------------------- After nearly a year's time as an Xmission/UTOPIA customer, my opinion is mixed. When it works, which is most of the time, the speed is wonderful. But my connection is down far too often--usually for a few tens of seconds at a time, but sometimes for many minutes at a time. When I originally installed UTOPIA I had planned to ditch my Qwest voice line in favor of an Asterisk-friendly VoIP provider. But in light of the relatively frequent UTOPIA outages, I wouldn't dare rely on UTOPIA for voice service. YMMV, obviously. FWIW, I've never come close to the 100GB monthly quota, but then again, I don't run servers. Chris /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
