On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 12:44:37AM +0000, Jeroen Massar wrote:
Roland Dobbins wrote:
I recently purchased a Slingbox Pro What I'm wondering is, do broadband SPs believe that this kind of system will become common enough to make a signficant difference in traffic paterns, and if so, how do they believe it will affect their access infrastructures in terms of capacity...
That said ISP's should simply have a package saying "50GiB/month costs XX euros, 100GiB/month costs double" etc. As that covers what their transits are charging them, nothing more, nothing less.
I thought IP transit was mostly paid by "95% percentile highest speed over 5 minutes" or something like that these days? Meaning that ISP's costs are maximised if everyone maxes our their line for the same 6% of the time over the month (even if they don't do anything the rest of the time), and minimised if the usage pattern were nicely spread out? -- Lionel