[SWLUG] Mobile broadband - can I make one machine feed the others?

[Jon Reynolds]

 On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:43:21 +0100, Chris Jackson wrote:
> On 16 August 2011 15:59, Sam Radion <sam at samradion.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> So if you pay for a month's access to a gym to you expect to go back 
>> three
>> months later and say "I only used the first two weeks"
>>
>> You are not buying a product, you are buying a time period of access 
>> with a
>> maximum amount you can use in that time. Even the companies like 
>> vodafone
>> still give you a maximum time to use your access, it's just a lot 
>> longer
>> than three (and costs more accordingly).
>
> I think the observation was that most people's initial understanding
> of PAYG is that any credit you buy will still be there when you come
> to use it (subject to Rule 7), and it won't arbitrarily expire some
> time after purchase.  It's certainly the case with talk time on my
> Orange phone - any expiry is tied to the time I last used the phone,
> not the time I bought the credit.  Evidently, I'm not the only person
> who would find it odd if bandwidth credits didn't work in the same
> way, especially since bandwidth is not a perishable good.

 That's exactly how I meant it.

 I'm buying, as they word it, a measurable amount of data. Just seems 
 like greed to make it run out after a month whether its used up or not. 
 I can't think of any other reason.

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 Jon Reynolds (j0nr)
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