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

[Ondřej Bílka]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 06:37:02PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> 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.

Primary function of quotas(64kbit/s after exceeded) is marketing trick how 
make customer pay more and shaping is secondary. 

If ISP wanted be nice to customers then it could after quota exceeded 
shape 64kbit/s+ available residual bandwidth
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