Re: Wireless routers...

[LeeUKHA <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It can't be that hard to develop - PlusNet have had it for years....
:)

They are a great ADSL provider... just check their website - no one else
has the balls to put live usage stats for their *UK* call centre online,
and live production issue stats etc. On the 'My account' pages it lists
your download usage which is refreshed every hour or so...

They operate a bandwidth cap, but only during peak time  (4pm-midnight)
the rest of the time it's a free for all, I regularly download 100GB+
per month without hitting the 20GB peak limit by running a scheduler to
slightly throttle the download speed during peak times...



>
> LOL - That was the case with NTL ... My best mate is on one of their
> development teams and they were going to spend a huge amount of money
> developing a system for tracking usage (and allowing the user to keep
tabs
> on usage and - if necessary - buy additional usage credits etc.) and
my
> understanding is that in a project meeting where they were trying to
justify
> the cost of the project (any changes they implement involve hugely
complex
> and expensive rollout and emergency fallback procedures) he suggested
that
> they saved the several hundred grand and hundreds of man-hours of
> development and testing because by the time they got it implemented
and
> ready for rollout other companies would be doing unlimited services
and by
> not investing the money to do it they could not only save themselves a
huge
> wadge of change but also make themselves look good to the customers.
Win-win
> all round. :-D
>
>