We block all P2P traffic (thanks to MT). I tell this to my customers
upfront, it says so in our TOS in bold. We are running with a 3meg all
you can eat fibre connection to the internet. The gov in Canada is
trying to find a way to collect royalties from the ISP, who then will
collect it from their clients, just like we collect their GST (general
sales tax) and PST (provincial sales tax).
Right now not even I can download from P2P and that is way it is going
to stay, we don't even allow bit-torrent. Most times these things are
used in an illegal context.
You have a Good Day now,
Carl A Jeptha
http://www.airnet.ca
Office Phone: 905 349-2084
Office Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm
skype cajeptha
Mac Dearman wrote:
The way I make them understand is that I tell them that I have hundreds of
businesses (call them by name) that use less than 3gigs of data transfer a
month. I also tell them that it is relatively impossible for them to even
get close to 2 gigs of transfer by sending emails, general surfing,
goggling...etc without hitting the P2P stuff downloading movies & music.
We do limit p2p on this network as well as limit residential threads onto
the internet. We have always shaped the P2P on the network as a whole, but
only in the last 2 months have we limited the connections. I must confess
that it brought the bandwidth utilization down by 7mbps. That is a TRAMATIC
difference!
Mac Dearman
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of rabbtux rabbtux
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:03 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] per customer computer pricing
Yes, but how do you explain what 5G/month is to the average sub??
They worry because they don't see this with the 'big boys' that
advertize & don't sevre their area. Do you find it takes alot more
selling/education for each sub?
On 2/17/07, Mac Dearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I tell my residential subs that we don't care if they have a hundred PCs.
We
don't have a cap on bandwidth that is available, but we do tell them that
with each subscription is included 5gigs of data transfer per month. We
sale
bandwidth for a living and it is metered just like electricity and water.
Help yourself to all you want, but it is not a free for all or a buffet
where you can eat all you want for the low low price of $8.99.
I realize I will probably get a scalding rebuke over my 5gigs, but I don't
have copper in the ground or FTTH to allow a Hogs feast on my bandwidth. I
run a very successful WIRELESS ISP and the BH pipes and APs are all
limited
in the amount of data they can carry. That is not my fault, but it is my
problem and that is how I deal with it! I never have a complaint and I
sell
a fantastic service.
Mac Dearman
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Nash
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:08 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] per customer computer pricing
We just tell them that the fact that they have more computers will
inevitably increase the expected bandwidth usage. We're flexible on it.
Essentially, if we have a customer that is clearly a business setup, we
charge more. If it is an ultra-geek setup, we'll charge it. If it's a
mom
& pop shop that just so happens to go over the threshold, we don't worry
about it.
Mark Nash
Network Engineer
UnwiredOnline.Net
350 Holly Street
Junction City, OR 97448
http://www.uwol.net
541-998-5555
541-998-5599 fax
----- Original Message -----
From: "rabbtux rabbtux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 3:45 AM
Subject: [WISPA] per customer computer pricing
I noticed that many WISPs have plans based on how many customer
computers are hooked up to the customer's service. How does that
work? Your installer counts computers initially, but then what?
I have several power users with 5-10 computers and would like to move
them to another plan, but need to understand how others do it.
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