How Does Your ISP Handle Top-Usage Customers?

davidwr (791652) writes "Does your ISP cap overall usage? What happens if you go over the cap? Does it force you into a higher-priced plan, throttle you for the rest of the month, cut you off for the month, or terminate your service entirely? I don't mind paying for what I use, but I'm looking for a list of cable and DSL providers that won't leave you high and dry like Comcast does if you go over the official or unofficial limits."

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I'm thinking of starting an ISP of sorts

[Omnifarious]

And I intend to have explicit usage caps. You will get full bandwidth until you get to about half the cap value, then you will be rate limited so you can no longer go over the cap. And this will be in the service agreement. And it would only extend to traffic going to one of the lines outside the ISP.

I would also like to run applications that allowed traffic to stay inside the ISP to help customers avoid the cap. If there are any programs that act as sort of a generic bittorrent trader so that most bittorrent traffic can be kepts inside the ISP, that would be great. Same with other filesharing programs.

It wouldn't be a matter of coming down on behavior that I thought was bad because anybody who engaged in it was obviously doing something else wrong. It would simply be a matter of preserving the quality of service for all the customers, not just the high-bandwidth users. I'm not the personal T3 connection for someone who's paying me $50/mo.

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