I did read that just yesterday, Matt. I noticed you don't have the 8 meg package on your website =P
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a very detailed breakdown of what we did to solve the UBB problem > on my Wireless Cowboys blog. You can read it here: > > http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/?p=88 > > We went the NetFlow method and correlate customer IP addresses to their > Freeside accounts to see who gets billed. Right now, the list of violators > is pretty small so we do the overage billing manually. We have the option > of building a batch transaction that gets imported into our billing system > on the first of each month. We also built a portal for users to check > their own bandwidth utilization, and our system sends emails to users when > they go over and a summary email to our techs with a list of all the people > that are over. > > Hope that helps. > > Matt Larsen > vistabeam.com > www.wirelesscowboys.com > > > > On 5/3/2011 12:00 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: > > What happens if/when you reboot the MT? Don't you lose your counts? I would > think a better idea would be to use traffic flow and an external NetFlow > analyzer. We are working on this for Wispmon as another way (other than > radius accounting) to do usage based billing with the product. The downside > to this is that the "Traffic Flow" stream as they call it, does not output > the mac field (even though one is available according to the NetFlow spec). > So if you are using DHCP, it becomes harder to track with this method as you > would have to constantly poll the routers to find out what mac they are > attached to. RADIUS is fairly cumbersome too as you have to sum all the > accounting sessions for a given user over a given time period. > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Josh Luthman <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Joe - http://www.mikrotik-routeros.com/?p=24 >> >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Joe Miller <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Can this script be made available for everyone? >>> >>> Joe Miller >>> DSLbyAir, LLC >>> 228-831-8881 >>> www.dslbyair.com >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Stuart Pierce" <[email protected]> >>> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 8:05 AM >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] My day is now dedicated to UBB research. You should >>> too. >>> >>> >>> > I've been saying for a while now that you have to have bandwidth caps >>> and >>> > costs stated on your website somewhere, even if you are not charging >>> for >>> > them at this point. You also have to have some method of giving >>> feedback >>> > to them on their bandwidth consumption. >>> > >>> > Right now thanks to Josh for the heads up about Andrew Cox's script for >>> a >>> > Mikrotik box, I've done that and so far so good. It will email the >>> client >>> > when they reach percentages of usage with whatever you want the content >>> of >>> > the email to say. >>> > >>> > What did your letter say ? >>> > >>> > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >>> > From: Mark Nash <[email protected]> >>> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> >>> > Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 10:34:01 -0700 >>> > >>> >>I think it's important for people to (after gaining an understanding of >>> >>the impact they have on "shared" bandwidth) choose one of these... >>> >> >>> >>1. pay more (either by overages or a different service plan that allows >>> >>for more & costs more), or >>> >>2. change their behavior to not use so much >>> >>3. leave >>> >> >>> >>I am implementing this now. The letter went out on Friday to most >>> >>customers... >>> >> >>> >>On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Chuck Hogg wrote: >>> >>> Not saying what I'm doing is right...I don't have enough spectrum to >>> >>> continue to deliver the service...haven't figured anything else out >>> yet. >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> Chuck >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Josh Luthman >>> >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Why not collect more revenue instead of limiting them? I suppose >>> >>> if the customer wants to simply be throttled back instead of pay >>> >>> more, that's one thing, but I imagine it makes more sense to >>> >>> capitalize on something. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thinking along the lines of the on demand movies and stuff from >>> >>> cable companies, for example. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Josh Luthman >>> >>> Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340> >>> >>> Direct: 937-552-2343 <tel:937-552-2343> >>> >>> 1100 Wayne St >>> >>> Suite 1337 >>> >>> Troy, OH 45373 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Chuck Hogg <[email protected] >>> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> 25GB per month. 128k/s after exceeding their limit. >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> Chuck >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Matt <[email protected] >>> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> > Robert >>> >>> > up/down/aggregate >>> >>> > 103972 MB 469598 MB 573570 MB >>> >>> > >>> >>> > The guy downloaded 470 gigs in April. 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