25 Oct
2007
25 Oct
'07
9:17 p.m.
Rod Beck wrote:
The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers.
"Actually, it sounds a lot like the Electric7 tariffs found in the UK for electricity. These are typically used by low income people who have less education than the average population. And yet they can understand the concept of saving money by using more electricity at night.
And actually a lot of networks do this with DPI boxes limiting P2P throughput during the day and increasing or removing the limit at night. -- Leigh