AT&T haalt de mosterd voor FUP bij Telenet ... ???

[ubremoved_2964]

Herinneren jullie nog de commotie rond de telenet FUP / vrij downloaden, en het feit dat Telenet weigerde mede te delen hoe ze het gebruik berekenden en wat nu precies het gemiddelde was van alle gebruikers in jouw productklasse ?

Net gelezen op slashdot: in de USA is nu blijkbaar net hetzelfde aan de hand met AT&T, toch geen kleine speler:

Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary?

"As many of you know, AT&T has implemented caps on DSL usage. When this was implemented, I started getting emails letting me know my usage as likely to exceed the cap. After consulting their Internet Usage web page, I felt the numbers just weren't right. With the help of Tomato on my router, I started measuring my usage, and ended up with numbers substantially below what AT&T was reporting on a day-to-day basis. Typically around 20-30% less. By the way, this usage is the sum of inbound and outbound. At this point, I decided to contact AT&T support to determine what exactly they were defining as usage, as their web pages never really define it. Boy, did I get a surprise. After several calls, they finally told me they consider the methodology by which they calculate bandwidth usage to be proprietary. Yes, you read that right; it's a secret. They left me with the option to contact their executive offices via snail mail. Email was not an option. So, I bring my questions to you, all-knowing Slashdotters: are there any laws that require AT&T to divulge how they are calculating data usage? Should I contact my state's commerce commission or the FCC to attempt to get an answer to this?"

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/11/14/ ... roprietary

[ubremoved_539]

Niet geheel... wat je verbruikt per dag is netjes omschreven (en zou normaal moeten overeenkomen met je router gegevens).

Wat echter wel een groot geheim is, is wat het "gemiddelde" gebruik is.

[jarco]

Bij telenet is het een volstrekt onlogische manier.
Als je iedereen die boven het gemiddelde uitkomt gaat ontmoedigen (dmv. snelheidsbeperking oid.) zakt dat gemiddelde. Op deze manier kunnen ze netjes zelf bepalen hoever ze willen gaan.