Originally Posted by
jerseyfinn
One thing he already knew from his own resort research was that a relatively smaller number of guests were sucking up the bandwidth. The problem is identifying those guests and partitioning them so that the general network can function. At that time I tell him the real solution is to provide a reliable (free) base connection for the bulk of guests and to steer the heavy users into a fee based for the bandwidth hogs ( we owners pay annual maintenance fees at our resorts & owners always want to keep cost/service in balance ). The GM laughs and says that I'm correct, but implementing such a solution is easier said than done.
barry
I talked to an int'l GM a few years ago about the same issue (reported in a dif thread). His property gets a lot of biz travelers.
They had upgraded their bandwidth but still was outpaced. He said they're able to determine which rooms/guests are using the most, and he had the idea for those to pay an additional fee vs. the average person & wanted my input.
I think he envisioned it (for example) that room 1 & room 2 are both online. Room 1 is doing email/average use of i-net. Room 2 is streaming film over VPN (or something bandwidth-hogging). Room 2 gets a pop up that says, you've exceeded capacity/level. If you wish to continue, click here for an additional charge of X. If Room 2 wants to continue w/ the hogging/higher rate, clicks & continues on merry way of hogging but paying for it. If doesn't want to pay, gets throttled back to normal bandwidth rate.
I have no idea if that's technically feasible (not sure if the GM knew either), but I liked the idea. The person who is hogging has the option of paying if he wants to continue hogging & the average person doesn't have to pay if he's not hogging.
Cheers.