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

[Frank Bax]

I didn't get the letter myself - I quoted from an email sent to local Linux 
group discussing the subject a few months back.


At 01:44 PM 6/24/04, Josiah Ritchie wrote:

>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%.
>
>
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