In the early morning kick their PPPoE session from the AP? I'm looking to move to Freeside by the end of the year. Would have already if I didn't go to WWL.
I'm actually looking to have someone make a desktop app that shows them how much they've used. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "George Morris" <ghmor...@candlelight.ca> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:38 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing > 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: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] 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 <t...@ida.net> 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 <ecrog...@precisionds.com> > <ecrog...@precisionds.com>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. Netflix is getting out of control and I don't >> want to punish the customers that only use it occasionally. I think >> they are very innovative solutions and don't want to hinder new >> applications. I just want people that download 160 GB in a month, when >> the average is nearly 10 GB a month, to pay their share for expanding >> the network. >> >> >> >> Who has dabbled in the metered/tiered services and what were your >> customers responses? >> >> What are your tiers? >> >> Have attitudes changed toward your company as being greedy? >> >> >> >> We already have everything in place to do it, just need to send out the >> letter saying we are doing it and why. >> >> >> >> Eric Rogers >> >> Precision Data Solutions, LLC >> >> (317) 831-3000 x200 >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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