[LARTC] 95th percentile billing

[Will Tatam]

Stef Coene wrote:

>On Saturday 21 February 2004 02:41, Roy wrote:
>  
>
>>You have good provider,
>>this is very usefull, because you can manage your trafic very efectively.
>>it is esay to limit trafic, to 1mbit, but you can set cburst to some very
>>large nunber like 3-10 mb
>>    
>>
>That's not such a good idea.  burst/cburst is for small burst.  
>If you use the configured cburst (so you send more packets then the ceil), you 
>have to wait some time to be able to reuse the cburst.  The bucket with 
>ctokens has to rebuild and this can only if you use less bandwidth then the 
>ceil.
>
>Stef
>
>  
>
How do cable modems limit ?

Here in tne uk you downloads always seam to start at wirespeed and then 
drop to the speed your paying

Can anyone who is on a burstable connection provide any example of how 
they allow busting for short periods

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