On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:22:30PM +0200, Peter wrote: > I do not agree. The bandwidth contracts cannot be cut at such short > notice.
Actually, they can be cut in seconds. Commerical bandwidth contracts, as well as most private user's ones outside of Israel, are sold as two or three parts. The first is obvious, the connection itself. You pay a monthly fee based upon how "big a pipe" you want. The second is the throughput. You pay for a total number of bytes of data you send and recevive. (How much flows through your pipe). The third is peak usage. You get a maximum peak rate based upon your connection and then pay overage charges. (How fast it gets pumped.) Companies that are also long distance carriers split their bandwidth between telephone and Internet service. They adjust it "on the fly" to keep the phones working. When there are lots of calls in progress, Internet bandwidth is decreased. If at their main routers, an ISP lowers the peak useage available to their Internet customers, their throughput and peak useage charges go down. This does not require a contract change, notification of customers, etc. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
