-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-09-14 02:39, John Andersen wrote:
On 9/13/2010 12:44 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
However... why should they care? It is the same bandwidth. The problem is that it is fully used. Bad design. If I buy one meg I'm entitled to use it fully and full time.
Hey Carlos, don't get me to try to defend those rip off artists. ;-)
From a purely business case, I presume they price the service based on the fact that they know nobody uses one meg all the time. They run the numbers and learn that people use less, and price it accordingly.
I know, I know... after all, it is my field ;-)
They know (on average) you won't use the full meg, so they charge you less than it would actually cost (allegedly) to provide you with a full meg 24/7.
Nobody wants caps. That's why they do it that way. If they just put in the bandwidth caps and byte caps they would never be in this situation. But people bitch, and equipment to do so is more expensive.
But it is bad design. You can cut corners, offer, say so much capacity, but instead install less, calculating for an average, peak, and reserve. However, if everybody fully utilizes their network, the fault is of the ISP, they should not be allowed to bitch and increase prizes. You know, the network is not designed to minimize congestion, but to reduce congestion claims to a certain acceptable limit. No congestion is expensive; to many claims is also expensive. That's it. >:-) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkyPLgIACgkQja8UbcUWM1yDpQEAloEQHNpJ4/anX0hZl/7gYVnH zXdcaFc9LhFb5THwol8A/RGT/+a7uRoy6obQWPSSeFXmzJW87FATq1PhdKEezl97 =MolH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org