[ On Friday, April 20, 2001 at 12:56:54 (-0400), Travis Pugh wrote: ]
Subject: Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?)
The one that surprises me is that carriers haven't introduced the concept of "off-peak" billing.
I don't know about the carriers, but some of the littler 2nd and 3rd tier guys are billing at 95th percentile because that's how they are billed upstream. I too would think that if you're actually paying a fixed rate for a fixed-rate pipe then you'd be far more interested in filling the valleys, so to speak. I know some broadband providers who are in that boat, but they don't want to also do what it would take to attract the traffic that would fill their valleys. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <woods@robohack.ca> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>