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Originally posted by playa
if the top 5% is cut off how am i not saving money?
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Here's how 95% really works. Every x minutes (mostly 5) your
ISP is doing a measurement of your throughput. At the end of the
month all measurements are being ordered descending. The top
5% is taken off.....the
FIRST measurement is your the level
you will get billed for.
So if you burst more than 5% on average per day (2.5 hours) then
you will get burnt on it. Let's assume on average you use 2Mbps
but between 10pm and 1am you burst up to 4Mbps average then
you will get billed for 4Mbps average usage per month.
So only if your traffic pattern is relatively flat......meaning no more
burst than 2.5 hours per day MAX it could be convenient.....but
most of the time it's convenient for your ISP.
DynaMite
