RE: 95th percentile reports
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:52:22 -0600
Hi Robert,
It might be common, but I never heard of it. It seems absolutely NUTS to
me. First, download bandwidth usage is the issue, not samples. You might
want to introduce your provider to MRTG. Then you guys can come up with
an agreement on the total amount of bandwdith you can use per month.
And $400/MB over the agreement is insane. The only place I can imagine
that type of inflation is the Weimar Republic :-) I pay $5/GB that I go
over the agreed 100GB/mo.
HTH,
Tom
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert [mailto:rzeff@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:53 AM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] RE: 95th percentile reports
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Here's how it works:
Our upstream counts every bit of our traffic. Every seconds an average
is
taken. During a month's time, the top 5% (36 hours) of samples are
thrown
out. We are then billed on the highest sample, excluding the top 5%.
In
our case it is $400 per meg. Our connection is a 100Mbit port. If
something went wrong we could get nailed with a huge bill. We have
about
50 email acounts and a dozen low traffic web sites. Out 95th averages
about 200Kbps = $80 / month.
I am told that this is a common billing method.
-
Robert
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