We don't do mush residential so it's less of a problem for us (yet). More and more employees are wasting time on the Internet and filesharing from work computers so at some point I may have to do something.
When that time comes, I will definitely implement monthly BW caps. A customer gets x amount of bandwidth to do with as they wish per month. They can use it all in the first 4 days and have no internet for 26 days, change their habits, or buy a bigger package. As it's said, 5% of your users will use 80% of your bandwidth. If those 5% are making the network slow for the other 95% I'll let them go in a heartbeat. Those guys can pay up or as Josh said, go away. __________________________________ Jerry Richardson airCloud Communications -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:36 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] heavy usage customers The agreement that most ISPs use states something like "we can limit or change bandwidth as is necessary deemed by us, you pay for the package name rather then the value printed upon signing the agreement". Basically you sell small/medium/large packages. If they pay for the small package and at the time they start it is 1MB but you deem 1MB too much, you drop it to 512k. If they complain it is not enough bandwidth they a) go back to dial-up or b) pay for what they want. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Chuck McCown - 3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Canopy... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:59 AM > Subject: [WISPA] heavy usage customers > > > > Does anyone else here have customer/s that consume so much bandwidth > > that you have to throttle them down after say 5 minutes of > > downloading. And what do you tell them when they start complaining > > about the throttled down speed. > > (they don't know your throttling them though) > > > > > > > > Kurt Fankhauser > > WAVELINC > > P.O. Box 126 > > Bucyrus, OH 44820 > > 419-562-6405 > > www.wavelinc.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
