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Originally Posted by Hell's Child
... but if all high users start doing this then off-peak won't be off peak anymore?! Do you get what I mean?
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Fair point but it is unlikely in the extreme that the numbers shifting use outside peak time would ever create such a problem and even if it did the congestion would only affect those same heavy users.
Allowing a 1 meg user to download more than a gig at peak times would however increase the congestion unless that increase is not used at peak times.
Unless some form of load balancing accompanies any change to the AUP the result is always likely to be at best no change in congestion and at worst a large increase in congestion.
Think "Economy 7" and the benefits that brought to all customers by helping encourage spreading the load by providing an incentive to do so.
Yes have a tiered cap but also link it to some method that encourages off-peak use as well.