On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:44:06AM +1300, Michael Newbery wrote:
Looking at our residential broadband figures, I see that the distribution is NOWHERE near normal in the statistical sense. In fact it's basically Poisson with a few people moving GB and most people moving kB.
Traffic behaviour on a networking looking like a queue, Hmm...
In order to offer reasonable pricing for most people (97% approx) I need to protect against the 3% who can drive the whole service into the red.
Sounds like the ISPs are complaining now - should you get your pricing model sorted to avoid that? As much as 'us' users complain about traffic limits there is a certain point where it is reasonable to control heavy tails. Different people have different views of reasonable though. Nicholas - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog