[CS-FSLUG] DSL (Verizon) vs. Cable (RoadRunner)

[Josiah Ritchie]

Wow, you received this letter? I guess doing it that way makes sense and
once it was setup, would be an easy thing to work with. It's less of a
subjective opinion and allows a user to see exactly how they compare.
Anyone do a lot of stats work and willing to quickly toss the pros and
cons of this sort of method out. It seems like it could have weaknesses,
but perhaps they are negligible in real life.

JSR/

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 13:11, Frank Bax wrote:
> At 09:32 AM 6/24/04, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> >I'm going to guess that they have bandwidth usage triggers that holler
> >when a certain lines uses x Mb of bandwith in y amount of time or
> >something like that. Then they'll watch and if they don't like what they
> >see, will provide warning or if they are feeling ornery just cut your
> >access.
> 
> 
> The local cable company does this - but usage trigger is not hard coded to 
> a specific bandwidth number of megabytes.  The 'trigger' letter (Oct. 2003) 
> contains this paragraph:
>  >> Rogers has a responsibility to ensure that all of its customers 
> experience a high
>  >> quality of service and performance when using Rogers Hi-Speed Internet. 
> Your
>  >> usage consumes a disproportionate share of our network's resources 
> which has
>  >> a negative impact on network performance. In fact, you fall within the 
> category of
>  >> less than 1% of our residential customers whose usage exceeds that of the
>  >> average customer by well over 2000%.