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Re: ALSO MUST READ NYTimes.com: Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic "People seem to be missing the point."
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:39:03 -0700
________________________________________ From: Seth Breidbart [sethb () panix com] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:22 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] ALSO MUST READ NYTimes.com: Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic "People seem to be missing the point." I don't think consumers will like variable pricing. I'd suggest a simpler technique. Right now, I have a cable modem, with "up to 8Mbps" speed (with more burstable for the beginning of a large transfer, which I think was created to look good to speed test sites). I can see a system in which the basic user gets up to, say, 2Mbps at high priority, and anything more he asks for at low priority. Users can also pay more to get high priority for more bps. At any given time, if the high priority usage is less than capacity, it all goes through; the rest of the bandwidth is allocated equally to all the low priority users. If the (attempted) high priority usage is greater than capacity, everybody gets cut back to a percentage of their high priority amount. That means each consumer pays a fixed, known, monthly charge, and large users who want more priority pay for it. Seth ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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- ALSO MUST READ NYTimes.com: Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic "People seem to be missing the point." David Farber (Jun 15)
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