Is he completely cut off or restricted to only certain sites/email? Hughes meters during business hours and if one goes over budget then they throttle you to a crawl during the following business hours period. The meter is off during the wee hours.
Greg On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Robert West wrote: > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
