I switched a farmer to us from Agristar the other night..... Satellite internet.... His number one gripe was that they metered him and once they went over a certain limit they were blocked for 24 hours as punishment. Man, that's severe! Imagine turning a customer totally off for 24 hours!!! Come on, at the extreme just throttle them down, sheeeeesh! He mentioned that they allowed full access from something like midnight to whatever but he laughed that off as no one is ever up those times.
Most torrent clients have a schedule you can set, I think, allowing full access for P2P during those times. Shouldn't be cumbersome for torrent freaks. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Bartosch Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:13 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing (time of use billing) It seems to me a long time ago (back in the dial up days), we restricted people from 8 AM to midnight but let them go full out and abuse the heck out of their connection if they so desired from midnight to 8 AM. We didn't *bill* differently. Or maybe we just wanted to. I know we *told* customers that's what we did ;-). Chuck On Nov 15, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Tim Sylvester wrote: > Talking about electric billing in this thread made me think of time-of-use > billing and tiered billing rate schedules for electrical usage. PG&E has > multiple rate schedules. The standard consumer rate schedule starts at > $0.115 per KWh and grows to $0.44 per KWh for usage over 300% of the > baseline. They also have time-of-use billing schedules which start at $0.087 > per KWh during off-peak times in the summer and move up to $0.297 per KWh > during peak times. > > Has anyone considered tiered usage billing or time-of-use billing for > Internet access? It would be complicated to implement and also difficult to > explain to customers. If Bit Torrent users are the biggest consumers of > bandwidth on a network you could benefit by encouraging them to use the > network during off hours. > > Tim > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > 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/ -------------- Chuck Bartosch Clarity Connect, Inc. 200 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-8268 "When the stars threw down their spears, and water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile, His work to see? Did He who made the Lamb make thee?" >From William Blake's Tiger!, Tiger! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 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/
