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Re: ADSL, who pays?

From: Simon Garner <sgarner_at_expio.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:13:38 +1300
Message-ID: <016e01c3943b$4c1f5910$0301a8c0@SIMON>

On Friday, October 17, 2003 11:48 AM [GMT+1200=NZT],
Mark Little <mark.little@staff.ihug.co.nz> wrote:

>
> All the cases I've come across of people becomming uncapped is because
> telecom's radius server stuffs up and the person gets assigned an IP
> from a jetstream pool rather than jetstart. As most ISP's use the
> telecom bandwidth these IP's are all routed to GlobalGateway rather
> than the ISP so all the accounting services that the ISP runs to
> account for the bandwidth used by their JetStart customers wont see
> the data.
>

That's not been the case on the occasions I've become uncapped - it's as
though the rate limiting simply becomes disabled for all Jetstart users
at the particular exchange/whatever. Each time, the data I used showed
up on my ISP accounts, and in once case where I exceeded my limit this
was charged for (as expected).

-Simon

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