In my heart, I know you are right. The nature of our business is we buy bandwidth wholesale, and then resell it to others who can't afford to buy dedicated bandwidth. We factor an oversubscription rate, and count on bursty, short lived traffic from users that share the bandwidth.
If I could afford to add bandwidth so everybody could maintain a 500 kbps connection for days on end, then I would. But the economics are I pay $350.00 for my first MB and $250.00 for each additional. So a person using the system for backup is utilizing a $175.00 resource for $42.40 a month; IF the back-up software only uses 500 kbps, and I've seen them surge way over that. So, two people running Mosy hog a Meg or more of a precious resource. Four of them, and they've used a couple MB or more. I'm sure you get the point. I do have a Netequalizer in place with fairness rules that will penalize those packets, because they are long duration IF and when the network gets near capacity. So, they get penalized, and grandma downloading pictures from her grand kids also gets penalized, even though her use is bursty and infrequent, just because there is not enough overhead on the pipe BECAUSE of the long duration back-up users. Without the Netequalizer, just a few of these users would bring my network to its knees. I am beginning to think Mosy and their ilk belong in the same camp as Netflix and the P2Pers. Mike At 05:51 AM 8/13/2009, you wrote: >Mike wrote: > > Seems wrong too that a company can make money off using MY bandwidth > > for hours on end with no compensation. > >You are getting compensated, by your customer, so now it isn't really >your bandwidth, but theirs. The customer is paying you to transport >data, be it pictures of kittens, a HDD backup, or something else. If the >terms of your contract are such that you can't support this usage, then >you should probably look at changing the terms of the contract. > >However, I would think that it would be pretty easy to look at the flows >and put throttling rules in place that limit Carbonite/Mozy/xyz traffic >when there is congestion. > >Josh > > >-- >Josh Cheney >josh.che...@gmail.com >http://www.joshcheney.com > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >WISPA Wants You! Join today! >http://signup.wispa.org/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > >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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
