[Bloat] Usage Based Billing - It's All About Perceived Congestion

[Ondřej Bílka]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:33:42AM +0200, Steve Davies wrote:
>    2011/3/1 Ondřej Bílka <[1]neleai at seznam.cz>
> 
>      If ISP wanted be nice to customers then it could after quota exceeded
>      shape 64kbit/s+ available residual bandwidth
> 
>    "Residual bandwidth" in our markets.  Haha.
There is plenty of residual bandwidth. For example between 3am and 8am. 
It would be logical from network shaping perspective as people would 
download at nigth and lower usage at day. 
> 
>    Interestingly our bandwidth caps have created this sense of "I bought it
>    so I'm going to use it".  So yesterday for instance my 3G HSPA+ service
>    from CellC - advertised performance 21Mb - was delivering throughput of
>    about 100Kb at best.  That's because everyone was trying to "use up" their
>    remaining cap.  Conveniently for CellC it would be impossible to use much
>    bandwidth at such a low speed.  Of course its rare to see more than 2Mb
>    even at better times.
> 
>    Steve Davies
>    (South African Internet user)
> 
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