Re: Marina base station coverage?

"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

Heh, I implemented a setup like this for a K12 private school. The idea was
to make the list of DNS lookups visible, but not associated with any
workstations. And then make subnet consumption stats likewise visible.

Good idea. For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of user fees and
metered internet billing. That makes me very unpopular as flat rate
billing is extremely popular. However, there are some places where
flat rate makes no sense and where resource protection is more
important. The DirecWay FAP is a good example. The problem is that
now I'm charged with concocting the "Ultimate Fair Billing System"
which is far more difficult than I expected. At this time, it's an
ugly spread*** mess that has to be manually adjusted depending on
individual circumstances. For example, how do I bill someone that's
out of town for the next 2 months? What do I do about the huge spike
in late night use during the end of the skool year two weeks ago? My
metamorphosis from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde is all too common in
discussions on the fairness of my billing system. Oh, why me you ask?
It's because I'm allegedly neutral and do not have a vested interest
in the community system.

Incidentally, there is a wireless component to the previously
mentioned community shared internet system. It's done wonders for
complicating the billing. For example, if the kids get together for a
cramming session with laptops in tow, do I bill the individuals, or do
I bill the house where they're meeting? With wireless, it's by the
individual. But if they plug into the house ethernet, it's by the
house.

I'd certainly want to avoid publishing DNS lookups for a system
involving adults in a public setting, as that wanders dangeously close to
censorship.

Yep. My neighbors are trying to keep their resident delinquent in
line by running all his traffic through a proxy server content
filtering service. Apparently, that also includes DNS lookups so I
can't see what he's surfing. All his traffic is going to one IP.

Even with this there's always some malcontent that rails about censorship.
C'est la vie.

The community system has one chronic complainer. He's also the
wealthiest person in the bunch, with the longest length of dirt road
to traverse, consumes the largest amount of water, and is always last
to pay for maintenance and common projects. He complains about
literally everything, even when there's no obvious reason to complain.
Eventually, someone figured out the magic formula. He hates monthly
bills, but is very generous in lump sums. So, the billing was
adjusted to reduce the number payments he has to make, which
proportionately reduced the number of complaints.

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