Hi Marlon, Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Just a thought, you might want to fire those 9 customers. You could also rate-limit them down to 56K and see how long they stick around. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: "Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps Date: Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:29 pm Size: 3K To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Cause it takes just 9 uers at 50 gigs per month to double my BW costs. At $35 per month in service fees, the 50 gig user chews up more than 10% of my costs. He needs to pay more. Or, he needs to get his service from you. Just be glad you aren't a competitor of mine. Right now, we have 9 users over 10 gigs per month. That means that 5% of my customers are more than, much more than, 5% of my bw costs. The average person is using less than 2 gigs. Worst of all, the OTHER customers on the towers that the highest of the high end users are calling about bad service. Soo000, how would you like to be a competitor here, knowing that I'm gonna give you the highest of the bw hogs? What are YOU gonna do to stay in business? laters, Marlon (509) 982-2181 Equipment sales (408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services 42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp! [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.odessaoffice.com/wireless www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps > Guess it cmes down to what you are selling and what does it cost you to do > business. > > First f, you are selling a simle internet conection for a casual user. If > you want you can squeeze them fr every little "bit". > > I wonder why you have to charge them more, if you are being billed at the > 95% > > My understanding is the 95 percentile is a snap shot at peak time and the > top 5% lobbed of to come up with your usage. What this means to me is that > on wed evening at 8PM when you hit 9.543megs a second which is your > highest usage, could be sunday morning or friday evening for that matter, > they call that the peak and lob off 5% and bill you there. > > So on monday morning when you are going 4.5 or 2.2MBPS or sat evening when > you hit 5 or 6 megs, there is no difference in cost to you. t's all under > the peak. > > So why bother unless your true goal is to figure out how hard you can > squeeze you sub. Which is not right or wrong, just your business not any > ones elses. > > I have a sub that uploads a 250 meg file twice a day to my server and does > this every day. > If he was your sub how much would you charge them? > > George > > > Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> OK, so now that we know who our heavy users are I have to come up with a >> couple of things. >> >> First, I have to figure out how many kbps a gig of download would be. >> Specifically, I've got a couple of customers doing 50 gigs per month. >> How many kbps does it take to generate that? >> >> We pay for our internet based on kbps. >> >> Next, what do we do for an overage fee? Currently it's set as $5 for the >> first gig, $10 for the second, $20 for the third etc. At 25 gigs the >> customer has a $5,000,000 bill. Sure that'll run off the abusers, but >> I'd rather find a more reasonable way to bill them. >> >> We have a business customer that legitimately uses 40 to 50 gig per --- message truncated --- -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
