It may very well be though as most ISP's pay not only for the connection to an upstrteam provider but also for how much information is moved over that connection, normally a dollar charge per gigabyte of data tranfered. At least that's how it goes at the ISP I work at. The rates we are charged on data are around $3-4 per GB (can$) and it is pretty sweet rate that we've got going for us. if yo ulook at it that each customer uncapped their cable modem to the full 10 Mbps that it may be capable, the you have:
10 Mbps * 13 people uncapping = 130Mbps of theoretical data transfer.
130Mbps works out to 16.25 MBytes/second.. over a month of 31 days that works out to:
16.25 Mbytes / second * 60 Seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 31 days/month =
43524000 Mbytes of Data Transfered in a 31 day month (assumming maximum usage which the ISP most likely is when claiming damages). That sclose to 42503 GB of data and at even $3 / GB that works out to $127509 (Can$) in one month.
I think that works out to around $50 American though:)
I know the numbers may be a little off in regard to the dollar amont lost as each ISP has their own specific agreements with their upstreams and my calculation was in Canadian dollars as well but I think you can see how quickly bandwidth charges can jump when you have a number of high bandwidth connection powering traffic through.
What I don't understand is why the ISP doesn't bill the customer for the bandwidth overages. I know that most ISPs here in Edmonton AB. Canada monitor the amount of traffic moved over a connection and wil bill the customer for an overage if the limit on their service agreement is exceeded.
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It may very well be though as most ISP's pay not only for the connection to an upstrteam provider but also for how much information is moved over that connection, normally a dollar charge per gigabyte of data tranfered. At least that's how it goes at the ISP I work at. The rates we are charged on data are around $3-4 per GB (can$) and it is pretty sweet rate that we've got going for us. if yo ulook at it that each customer uncapped their cable modem to the full 10 Mbps that it may be capable, the you have: 10 Mbps * 13 people uncapping = 130Mbps of theoretical data transfer. 130Mbps works out to 16.25 MBytes/second.. over a month of 31 days that works out to: 16.25 Mbytes / second * 60 Seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 31 days/month = 43524000 Mbytes of Data Transfered in a 31 day month (assumming maximum usage which the ISP most likely is when claiming damages). That sclose to 42503 GB of data and at even $3 / GB that works out to $127509 (Can$) in one month. I think that works out to around $50 American though :)
I know the numbers may be a little off in regard to the dollar amont lost as each ISP has their own specific agreements with their upstreams and my calculation was in Canadian dollars as well but I think you can see how quickly bandwidth charges can jump when you have a number of high bandwidth connection powering traffic through.
What I don't understand is why the ISP doesn't bill the customer for the bandwidth overages. I know that most ISPs here in Edmonton AB. Canada monitor the amount of traffic moved over a connection and wil bill the customer for an overage if the limit on their service agreement is exceeded.