My ISP (Teksavvy) offers a couple of incentives like that. They will waive your monthly data cap if you consent to having your connection throttled, if required, to ~6Mb/s during peak usage times (6pm-midnight). They also don't count traffic between 2-8am.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Skylar Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/22/2014 12:24 PM, David Lang wrote: > > Acutally, I'll bet that there have always been some sources that have > > generated far more traffic than others. > > > > But even if it's true, I still fail to see why they should have to pay > > every ISP in the world to carry their traffic. > > > > If they can't deliver the advertised bandwidth to their customers at the > > prices they are charging their customers, then they shouldn't advertise > > those rates at those prices. > > Agreed. And if ISPs really do need to manage peak demand, they can use > the incentive method like electric utilities do. For instance, my > parents in WI have an optional device attached to their air conditioning > unit that the utility can use to shut it off remotely, for periods up to > an hour. This allows the utility to spread out peak demand if they need > to. My parents receive a small rebate on their monthly bill as an > incentive. They can opt-out at any time, and stop receiving the rebate. > > Assuming this is just a problem with peak capacity, I wonder if > ISPs/backbone providers could do something similar? Maybe tell Netflix > and other content providers that if they can reduce the peak of their > demand by more than a few percent, they'll get a small rebate on their > connectivity charges. It doesn't matter *how* they do this - it could be > a combination of giving customers a rebate for reducing video quality, > or letting customers choose content to download overnight or during the > work day. As long as Netflix meets the goals for the month, they'll get > the rebate. People tend to respond better to carrots (rebates) than > sticks (fines, ultimatums) so it should be better publicity too. > > If this isn't a problem with peak demand, but just continuous > oversubscription, than this really isn't Netflix's problem, but lying on > the part of the network providers. > > Skylar > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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