My father in law lives off the grid so he turns off the everything in the house when he is gone... The power is OFF.
He got home one day and was throttled by Hughes. W. T. F. and there was no arguing the point with the rep. Man was he ticked. Former AF Colonel.. NEVER swears. He swore a lot that night. ryan On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Robert West <[email protected]>wrote: > He told me he gets "Blacked out" and the internet "doesn't work" but he may > have had email access but honestly most people in this area use yahoo or > gmail so even if they allowed email protocol, they wouldn't use it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:21 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Billing (time of use billing) > > 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! 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