Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 20 January 2009 10:55 : \____
>>> Indeed, but not for what they use - high users generally get an
>>> excellent deal on the back of low users.
>>>
>>> Is this fair?
>>
>> Tariffs for levels of use would be fair; net neutrality violations
>> (throttling), however, would not.
>
> I agree. The temptation to do "deep packet inspection" is very
> strong, to a great extent, because there are companies making and
> marketing such boxes, and it's perceived to be simpler and much less
> expensive by many to insert such boxes into the network streams,
> rather than use them to count packets and create a more complex bill.
>
Is it really that complicated for ISPs to calculate bandwidth usage?
Ever since I first started using ADSL services, I've had the means of
viewing my own bandwidth usage, usually broken down into upstream;
downstream; peak and offpeak stats. If that data is available for me to
view, then surely that same data can be used by the ISP's billing dept.
> A few other issues brew up with usage level tariffs, too, though, not
> the least of which is what do you do when someone suddenly ups their
> usage? Did they mean to?
Well you could say the same thing about gas, electricity and phone
bills. You use it, you pay for it.
> Billing is not a simple world.
It'd be a lot simpler if ISP's stopped oversubscribing their services.
I'd don't want to "leech" off low-level users, any more than I want to
be capped or throttled (or deep-packet-inspected, for that matter). I
just want to pay for what I use, and /only/ what I use, much like I do
with any other utility. That seems like a perfectly reasonable and fair
expectation to me.
--
K.
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