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And I forgot to mention that almost all our customers are of the
unlimited type, so we don't don't monitor their traffic rate, or amount. tom K0TAR Tom Ring wrote: Close, but not quite. An ISP will buy pipes, such as a DS3 that does 45Mbps, for a flat rate per month. Theoretically the upstream provider doesn't care if 1 bps or 45 Mbps are passing through that pipe; from a billing perspective, they get the same money. But they have to play the statistical game on how much upstream pipe that they need to handle all the 45Mbps pipes they sold to ISPs like you. And eventually you get to the backbone providers, who have really really big pipes, and very expensive routers. This "power user" thing is something I've never heard anyone in the business speak of, so I have no idea why you would get bumped. If you are not breaking the TOS agreement, ISPs don't care a rat's rear end how much traffic you generate. You buy a pipe from the ISP and you have every right to fill it if you can. The only exception to that would be that you have a maximum number of hours or bytes per month. They won't kick you if you exceed it, they just charge you an additional amount that you agreed to in your contract with them. Some ISPs may do it a bit differently, but that's fairly normal in the industry. tom K0TAR |
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