On Fri, Oct 05, 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
Technically the user can use the connection to it's maximum theoretical speed as much as they like, however, if an ISP has a quota set at 12G/month, it just means that the cost is passed along to them when they exceed it.
And that seems like a bit of the handwaving. Where is it costing the ISP more when the user exceeds 12G/month?
No, its that they've run the numbers and found the users above 12G/month are using a significant fraction of their network capacity for whatever values of signficant and fraction you define.
Of course, that's obvious. The point here is that if your business is so fragile that you can only deliver each broadband customer a dialup modem's worth of bandwidth, something's wrong with your business. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.