(chewing my pop-corn) Eh... I would like to have that kind of problems! Here we sell a residental 1Gbps for $5/mo with really unlimited traffic, and have a lot of complaint calls if there is slightly less than 1Gbps for that particular users.
THAT is how the high competitive market works! ;) On 09.01.16 16:06, Mike Hammett wrote: > Valid points. > > The best solution for everybody is the solution most consumers are adverse > to, which is usage based billing. Granted, many times the providers have shot > themselves in the foot by making the charges punitive instead of based on > cost plus margin. Reasonable $/gig for everybody! :-) > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alan Buxey" <a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk> > To: "Mike Hammett" <na...@ics-il.net> > Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2016 4:38:58 AM > Subject: Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan. > > You're assuming that people are only using phones with their SIM - those that > use a mifi dongle and thus view content on a tablet or laptop will notice > > We could rate limit traffic from YouTube to 1.5mbps and let the adaptive > streaming knock the steam to 480p bit our users with 100mbit connections > might wonder why they cannot view 720p or 1080p - and why spicy they view > such content - its like putting back the web and online video services 5 > years. Where does it stop? 320x240 ? > > Bulk data and background update processes are things that could possibly by > throttled - after all, that's pretty much what QoS does. Most of my phone > data is google play software updates and on woes phone ios and itunes store > updates - it doesn't matter if the update ticks along in the background. > Audio and video need to be good. > > alan >
