In PPPOE you should be able to just kill the connection and the client should reestablish a moment afterward. I know it works this way with MT PPPOE server/client.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --- Albert Einstein On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:38 PM, George Morris <[email protected]>wrote: > Rick, did you have a self-serve portal where your customers could check > ongoing usage? > > We are implementing IPtrack, same as Marlon. Brandon will build a > self-service portal for us. > > We are also going to implement something called 'Moonlighting', where we > don't count bandwidth from Midnight to 6am in an effort to move some heavy > traffic onto the dead period on our network. > > Makes tiered pricing easier to swallow... > > What I would really like to do is allow a speed increase at the same time, > to give people a taste of our more advanced services. > > Unfortunately I have no idea how to make that happen in a PPPoE environment > without forcing people to disconnect and re-login. > > George > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of RickG > Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:33 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing > > Travis, I was operating on the premise that you said to send them to DSL or > cable. > Even with that, I did not have that experience. We sent the invoices out > with a copy of their usage report and it was rarely, if ever questioned. > -RickG > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And deal with the extra phone calls each month from customers that claim > > they didn't use that much. :( > > > > Travis > > Microserv > > > > RickG wrote: > > > > Many of you know this is not that hard. Back in 1997 I had an Allot box > that > > gave me the numbers. All I did was pull the report and bill accordingly. > The > > hard part would be integrating it with a billing system so it does it > > automatically. -RickG > > > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Eric Rogers <[email protected]> > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > We are on the verge of changing to a metered or tiered billing structure > > with Caps that once they exceed the cap; it doesn't shut off, but they > > get charged the overage. 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