Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
by post_break on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:43PM
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Since no one answered your question even remotely, no there is no cost to the ISP related to the amount of data transferred. It's basically how much pipe do you want, not how much water are you going to flow. So at the ISP I worked at we'd buy a fiber connection from say sprint, and it would be 10 gig speed. There were no costs involved with how much we transferred. 0 bytes or hit that line 100% saturation 24x7, costs the same.
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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
by parliament32 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:49PM
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What are you talking about, basically every tier 1 carrier is going to charge you based on usage. Usually per average mbps or gbps with a minimum commit (so you'd buy, say, a 100G link with a 10G commit, then you pay $x per gbps using 95th percentile[1] with a minimum of 10gbps).
The only exception is if you peer and have a bilateral agreement, in which case you pay nothing anyway.
If the ISP you worked at used other ISPs (tier 2 or 3) as upstreams then yeah, you get the same service as business class internet (flat rate for a capped link speed) but once you're one of the big boys it's absolutely metered and charged by usage.
Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
by post_break on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:17PM
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The ISP used other ISPs for upstreams.