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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Going on last quarter's results, this would require VM to implement and manage 3,500,000+ web-pages, being constantly updated.
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No it wouldn't, it would require them to implement a single dynamic page to pull usage data from a back end database.
The way you've put it makes it sound like they would be individually updating every page which is of course ridiculous.
One web page, one interface to a database which holds usage data pulled from each CMTS. It's not unreasonable and if other cable companies can do it you'd imagine Virgin can. Number of customers is no excuse at all. Once the code is in place, the database prepped and all broadband customers are of course already on a database, and the front end HTML etc built there's very little need for any human intervention at all.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
Somehow i think thats more than acuiss will ever have to deal with. They only deal with a small userbase.
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Which made the stats more expensive for them. Whether they had 500 or 500,000 customers most of the costs would have been similar, apart from storage which is nothing anyway. They split the costs of the implementation between less customers so more expense per customer.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
last 24 hours as screen shot below
So yes i can tell instantly if i have been ripped off by STM
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You've used more in the past day than I have in the previous 4 months
That's cool but some people can't set such things up as they don't have the wherewithall, more to the point why should they? They purchase 'unlimited' broadband they shouldn't be having to go out of their way to ensure they don't hit the limits on it and get throttled.
The least Virgin could do it give us some way of monitoring our usage, though this debate has been going on for years and it's always been a case of 'download netmeter'. Netmeter should ask VM for sponsorship.
To borrow a quote from the newsgroups:
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I appreciate it's not going to be high on the list of priorities, it being something that doesn't immediately make money and will purely bring convenience for customers, but it's worth a look I hope, and won't along with increased uploads go in the 'customers don't want or need' pile on AB's desk.
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