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

[Jeremy Visser]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said:
> Cutting down service to as low as 100kbit/s
> downstream and 30kbit/s upstream when the consumer goes over a monthly
> quota, limiting concurrent tcp sessions, and extremely severe shaping of
> P2P traffic are used as alternatives to UBB.

Ha. Here in Australia, shaping the service to 64 kbit/s downstream when
quota is exceeded is the norm. Premium services sometimes allow 128 or
256 kbit/s shaping, but that's not very common.