Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-23 Thread Shahab Vahabzadeh
Thanks about every ones speech in this topic but I think I can not describe my problem clearly, let me explain it some how more: You know I have two kind of ADSL services, Limited and Unlimited. Limited Like: 512Kb-4GB-3Month 1024Kb-4GB-3Month 2048Kb-6GB-3Month 4096Kb-8GB-3Month Unlimited Like:

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-23 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Shahab Vahabzadeh sh.vahabza...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks about every ones speech in this topic but I think I can not describe my problem clearly, let me explain it some how more: You know I have two kind of ADSL services, Limited and Unlimited. Limited Like:

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-23 Thread Dan White
On 08/23/12 10:51 +0430, Shahab Vahabzadeh wrote: Thanks about every ones speech in this topic but I think I can not describe my problem clearly, let me explain it some how more: You know I have two kind of ADSL services, Limited and Unlimited. Limited Like: 512Kb-4GB-3Month 1024Kb-4GB-3Month

RE: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Bulk
: Fair Use Policy A unique position? Unlike those poor residential ISPs who only have literally millions of subscribers to use as leverage in peering negotiations. Perhaps more accurately, rather than saying Google can afford to start almost any project they want we should say Google doesn't suffer

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Shahab Vahabzadeh
Dear Owen, As you know in pick time of internet usage like midnight in which we have free-access times too, some users which really want to use internet for their daily usage and not downloading or using peer-to-peer services unfairly affecting this problem. Some companies are using some polices

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Shahab Vahabzadeh
What I am talking mostly is some services like COA, in which you can change users shape time-base and periodically without disconnecting them. On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: If you want to control usage that way, sell a metered product. Bill the heavy

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Shahab Vahabzadeh
engine. -Original Message- From: Shahab Vahabzadeh sh.vahabza...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:36:40 To: Owen DeLongo...@delong.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Fair Use Policy What I am talking mostly is some services like COA, in which you can change users shape time-base

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Shahab Vahabzadeh
Dear Owen, Would you please describe this some how more in my bussiness plan? I have both limited and unlimited users. For example I have these services in my package: 512Kb-5GB-1Month 256Kb-Unlimit-1Month And like this. Thanks On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote:

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Hi Shahab, You can find out how much bandwidth they're using by having that reported periodically via RADIUS (or at least when the session ends, worst case). Store in database. SELECT sum(blah) from foo where id=bar. Next question is what do you want to do to them once they exceed their

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Bacon Zombie
I how you are talking about 3G or there is a typo. An ISP with a 5GB cap that is charging the end user more then 5$ total {including line rental} a month should not be allow to operate. And if your infrastructure and handle 25% at a minimum maxing out their connect them don't advertise unlimited

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Sean Harlow
On Aug 22, 2012, at 17:06, Bacon Zombie wrote: An ISP with a 5GB cap that is charging the end user more then 5$ total {including line rental} a month should not be allow to operate. I agree entirely. The US is not exactly known for great broadband access, particularly where I live in the

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:17:14 -0400, Sean Harlow said: Wired internet providers should not even be thinking about caps below the 250 GB/mo point. Neither of these example speeds can even reach that level, so if you feel the need to cap you are doing it wrong and should rethink your business

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Sean Harlow s...@seanharlow.info wrote: On Aug 22, 2012, at 17:06, Bacon Zombie wrote: An ISP with a 5GB cap that is charging the end user more then 5$ total {including line rental} a month should not be allow to operate. I agree entirely. The US is not

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Owen DeLong
And, in the other camp, unlimited offerings from T-Mobile, Sprint, and Metro Well...sort of. To be fair, the T-Mo version of unlimited is unlimited up to a certain amount (that you paid for) and then all-you-can-sip at incredibly low speed thereafter. (At least that's what their marketing

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: And, in the other camp, unlimited offerings from T-Mobile, Sprint, and Metro Well...sort of. To be fair, the T-Mo version of unlimited is unlimited up to a certain amount (that you paid for) and then all-you-can-sip at

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Sean Harlow
On Aug 22, 2012, at 17:35, Owen DeLong wrote: Well...sort of. To be fair, the T-Mo version of unlimited is unlimited up to a certain amount (that you paid for) and then all-you-can-sip at incredibly low speed thereafter. The new plans being brought out are supposedly true unlimited, but

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 22, 2012, at 14:45 , Cameron Byrne cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: And, in the other camp, unlimited offerings from T-Mobile, Sprint, and Metro Well...sort of. To be fair, the T-Mo version of unlimited is unlimited up

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 8/22/12, Bacon Zombie baconzom...@gmail.com wrote: I how you are talking about 3G or there is a typo. An ISP with a 5GB cap that is charging the end user more then 5$ total {including line rental} a month should not be allow to operate. I don't believe $5 even covers an ISP's typical cost

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Benjamin Krueger
Yeah, totally can't be done. It especially can't be done profitably. http://fiber.google.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/07/26/the-economics-of-google-fiber-and-what-it-means-for-u-s-broadband/ On Aug 22, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 8/22/12, Bacon Zombie baconzom...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 8/22/12, Benjamin Krueger benja...@seattlefenix.net wrote: Yeah, totally can't be done. It especially can't be done profitably. Google can afford to start almost any project they want, and they are in a unique position to negotiate peering and access to a ton of bandwidth, with their

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Owen DeLong
On Aug 22, 2012, at 17:41 , Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/22/12, Bacon Zombie baconzom...@gmail.com wrote: I how you are talking about 3G or there is a typo. An ISP with a 5GB cap that is charging the end user more then 5$ total {including line rental} a month should not be allow

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/22/12, Bacon Zombie baconzom...@gmail.com wrote: I how you are talking about 3G or there is a typo. An ISP with a 5GB cap that is charging the end user more then 5$ total {including line rental} a month should not be

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Joe Greco
Google can afford to start almost any project they want, and they are in a unique position to negotiate peering and access to a ton of bandwidth, ... kind of like all the other major incumbents like att, Comcast, and all those. Of course, the difference is that att, Comcast, etc., all have

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Benjamin Krueger
A unique position? Unlike those poor residential ISPs who only have literally millions of subscribers to use as leverage in peering negotiations. Perhaps more accurately, rather than saying Google can afford to start almost any project they want we should say Google doesn't suffer the

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Owen DeLong
I just wish that someone...Google or ANYONE else would do something like Google Fiber in the technological wasteland where I live instead of focusing only on hotbeds of high-speed internet and well-connected customers like Kansas City, parts of North Dakota, Minnesota, etc. Here in my

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Sean Harlow
On Aug 22, 2012, at 21:25, William Herrin wrote: Works for the electric company, the gas company, the water company, etc. Metering I mean, not a use cap. The notion of a cap is pretty broken. The difference is that gas, water, and electricity are all resources that have actual costs relevant

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 391af4eb-239d-4982-8682-643253440...@seanharlow.info, Sean Harlow writes: On Aug 22, 2012, at 21:25, William Herrin wrote: Works for the electric company, the gas company, the water company, etc. Metering I mean, not a use cap. The notion of a cap is pretty broken. The

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Sean Harlow wrote: As far as I can tell, the actual cost of the bits being transferred is so minuscule as to be practically irrelevant for anyone who's not at the scale to be dealing directly with Tier 1 carriers. Capacity costs money, but once it's there utilization is