Good news for ISP's

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A little birdy (ok, a big fat, ugly birdy) told me that Telkom is now ready to offer ISP's that magical item called "Radius Interim Accounting" with a maximum frequency of one hour. This means that ISP's can now start tracking their users' usage per hour, instead of per session reset.

It still doesn't help with users stealing bandwidth over their session times, but apparently that is "Real Soon Now(tm)" with them implementing something called the Packet of Death, which will allow an ISP to kill any session of their userbase.

Finally, progress. Albeit slow.
 
TheRoDent said:
A little birdy (ok, a big fat, ugly birdy) told me that Telkom is now ready to offer ISP's that magical item called "Radius Interim Accounting" with a maximum frequency of one hour. This means that ISP's can now start tracking their users' usage per hour, instead of per session reset.

It still doesn't help with users stealing bandwidth over their session times, but apparently that is "Real Soon Now(tm)" with them implementing something called the Packet of Death, which will allow an ISP to kill any session of their userbase.

Finally, progress. Albeit slow.
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I smell PER MB billing!
 
savage said:
About time Telkom wakes up and realise there is something called Radius Disconnect Messages yes...
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They will NEVER wake up NOR smell the coffee.
 
Scooby_Doo said:
How is this usefull to us the end users?
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The current problem is that certain users will go all out in one session and use as much bandwitdh as they can. The ISP's in turn have to pay for this bandwidth regardless of only charging you for 3 gigs, If you are able to use 20 gigs in your 12 hour session (highly unlikely at our speeds but still) Currently the ISP's in south africa basically do nothing about it, but cough up more money.

If they can "stop" these users from doing this by checking up each hour, (currently like BT in the UK, and many other ISP's internationally) they will be able to control the BW pool's much better than they currently are, and would be able to allow us bigger accounts, and inturn maybe a system like telkom where they can purchase large pools and allow users to go over the max cap.

At least in Theory
 
Will this not also enable the ISPs to offer static IP addresses.

"This means that ISP's can now start tracking their users' usage per hour, instead of per session reset."
 
Kalvaer said:
At least in Theory
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But in reality wouldnt they be just as likely to sign up additional users and not increase the pool?
 
bwana v.10 said:
But in reality wouldnt they be just as likely to sign up additional users and not increase the pool?
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I guess they could, but that would just mean that they would be loosing more customers who are heading over to telkom for the "un-specified cap" accounts.

Which is where I scored. I've always been with telkom, when everyone moved over to the large cap accounts, I had relatively low latency, and decent speeds. Now everyone is flooding back to telkom like flies to shi... to "rape" the accounts as they so nicely put it, and I've moved over to one of the other ISP's and again I've got low latency and decent speeds. So I sure will be killing myself laughing if the do increase the caps again here with the new system
 
Franna said:
Will this not also enable the ISPs to offer static IP addresses.

"This means that ISP's can now start tracking their users' usage per hour, instead of per session reset."
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Hi Franna.

Sadly, no. IP's are still allocated from a pool determined by Telkom on allocation.

The only route atm is to use the "box" approach like IS have done.
 
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