Right before your billing, go though and generate a list of people who get
better than 33.6 connects, and adjust their billing.
It's a more valuable service, and it causes your phone bill and equipment
bill to double - you should charge for it. (Unless you're one of those
lucky people whos PRI payment is less than most people's car payment)
We don't use pm3's. We have have X2 in small scales. We charge a little extra
for ISDN users, and X2 users are rightly ISDN users as far as our facilities
go. We'll be keeping the ISDN (ISDN and X2) services on a different modem
server (pm2e), so it will be easy to track usage.
>
> We're an ISP considering charging a higher rate for 56K service as opposed
> to 33.6K. We can modify RADIUS to check whether a user is authorized for
> 56K when the Connect-Info string indicates a carrier higher than 33600.
> The problem is, what do we do if they aren't authorized for 56K? Return an
> authorization failure? If so, the user will need to include an AT+MS...
> command in their modem init string to only allow it to negotiate 33.6K. If
> they dial other services with the same modem, they'll have to change the
> init string each time depending on whether they want to connect at 56K or
> not.
>
> How are other ISP dealing with this? Is there a way to force the Lucent
> modems to re-negotiate a slower speed after the connection is already
> established?
>
> Paul C. Diem
> pcdiem@FoxValley.net
>
>
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