said by Angelo_ :

time to qos abusive people.. as much as we had traffic shaping its better then getting kicked off

said by Frozty2k :

Wow, I can't see people doing 1TB+ a month doing it for personal use. I mean, assuming most of it isn't streaming stuff etc, you would need a lot of space, HD's are cheap but not that cheap.

Companies do have the right to protect themselves and their users, all I ask is for the companies to be straightforward about it's policies / reasons and have actual packages for people to go to.

said by Angelo_ :

so if it gets out of ocntrol does that mean taht tsi will lay their own lines??

said by R0CKY :

Who knows..... Believe I've seen a few discussions of late about sand vines in sympatico forums and other throttling means in Rogers/etc... Not sure if this is the solution for them or if they're simply planning on blacklisting users/locations. Everything is still unknown as of yet, but, as I've just stated..... People are wanting it all now, instead of in small bites/bytes, so it's causing large, uncontrollable spikes during prime times for the big boys and thus, they have to fight back.

said by Gwai Lo Dan :

Would / does Bell care if a $30 Teksavvy client downloads a TB? Is there any difference in cost to Bell if a person did the 1 TB download through a secondary Teksavvy account / primary Sympatico account?

said by Gwai Lo Dan :

Would / does Bell care if a $30 Teksavvy client downloads a TB? Is there any difference in cost to Bell if a person did the 1 TB download through a secondary Teksavvy account / primary Sympatico account?

said by Frozty2k :

The max $30 fee ?

said by Angelo_ :

maybe it's time to make partnerships with the states for bw... and take advantage of our dollar :P, also may let you sell to our friends south of the border!

said by R0CKY :

It's overloading things when all the heavy users go at it at the same time.... It hurts in two ways. The pipe is running red hot through the prime times and to boot it's running a tab on the ISP from a transit stand point. From the TekSavvy side the 1TB user would cost something like $50-$60 to carry on a $30 return and $30 to $40 on a $10 login.... no clue on the Bell/Rogers side what the damage is, but it's significant enough that they'd want to do something about it.

said by dmz :

Would the cost (to TekSavvy) be the same if this user confined his downloading to off-peak hours? (say, from 1am to 7am)

said by Angelo_ :

how about offering cable internet :P hehe im so greedy :P

said by R0CKY :

It would likely help us yes... For that matter, it would likely help all ISPs. Problem is that it would depend on how they all judge abusers. If they're simply using a tabbing system, then no matter....