[Rakhal]

Just pondering another solution for the congestion problem. I'm not sure how techically possible this is, but is it possible to make one users traffic 'low priority' traffic. In other words their packets would only get delivered if no non-low priority packets are being delivered.

If so, then after a given user has used their limit for the day, they don't get their speed reduced, but they get put onto the low-priority list for the remainder of that day.

That way if there's no congestion they will still get their 3MB, but if the pipe fills up it will be the heavy users that will get degraded service first. Only if the pipe is totally filled by non low-priority customers will they see any degradation (which should be rather rare). And if that does happen the heavy users will basically be shut out of the net altogether (til it quietens down a bit)

A more advanced solution would be to allow a user that's gone over the daily limit a small amount of normal priority traffic (say 56K worth), with the balance being low-priority traffic. That would be harder to do, but would be nicer on the heavy users, allowing them to do normal email/browsing even at peak-time congested periods.

Is this feasible at all. Would anyone go for it?

--Rakhal