Marlon, Out of curiosity, do you know your total capacity available to each of your subs? Can they ALL actually get 10gigs/month if they ALL tried to do it? To be honest, I have not taken the time to figure out this number for my network which is part of the reason I shy away from going to by the bit pricing even though I've been a long proponent of it.
-RickG On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Marlon K. Schafer <o...@odessaoffice.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Wallace" <supp...@azii.net> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:24 AM > Subject: [WISPA] Bit Cap Thresholds, etc > > >>I have a few questions for those of you who sell bandwidth by the byte: >> >> 1. What is the threshold you use, ie, 3Gb in 30 days, or do you have >> different packages? > > 10 gigs per month for wireless. 20 gigs for fiber customers. > > Business users that pay more get more. However, the ones that insist on > allowing radio on the computers etc. usually end up paying even more yet. > We try to set a level above what they use in a normal month then cut them a > little bit of a break on the normal billing amount. > >> 2. Is this total bytes in & out or just in? > > Total. Combined. WE pay for it both ways..... > >> 3. What do you charge for overages? > > $5 per gig. If they go over by more than 10 gigs we'll normally work to cut > them some kind of a break. Again, the expectation is that it's got to more > than pay for the additional costs. > > Don't forget the costs of AP wide slowdowns for everyone else. If that > starts to happen and you loose the "easy" customers you have to add ap's to > the tower. That costs both money AND spectrum. > > We've started an overbuild with additional bands for our heavy sites. We > charge more for the install and the service, but that gives the gamers/high > end customers someplace to go. AND we make SURE that service from that > system is the BEST in the area we're in. > >> 4. Have you considered just throttling back customers like the satellite >> guys do? > > Yeah. But there is no money in that. > > It's also not what our service is based upon. Our service runs as fast as > we can make it go. Up to 10 mbps in both directions for as little as $35 > per month. Those who pay more are paying for reliability not speed. > > The other thing to think about is human nature. People do what people do. > To them, by and large, if they want to download a 100 meg windows update > they will do it no matter what. If they want a 700meg WOW demo, they'll go > get it. If you slow them down they'll "use" the system much longer. > > So instead of getting them on and off the air in, oh say 10 minutes, they > might be there for 2 hours. The chances of another high capacity project > happening on the network go up a LOT when the users are "on the air" for a > longer period of time. > > make sense? > marlon > >> >> Jason >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
