{"id":629243,"date":"2010-01-12T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100108\/0309327670.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-12T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T04:33:00","slug":"as-isps-look-to-charge-per-byte-how-accurate-are-their-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/629243","title":{"rendered":"As ISPs Look To Charge Per Byte&#8230; How Accurate Are Their Meters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various ISPs have been pushing for metered broadband for a while now, and we&#8217;ve wondered in the past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090504\/0312294734.shtml\">who will monitor<\/a> the broadband meters themselves to make sure they&#8217;re accurate?  After all, with things like energy meters, they&#8217;re carefully regulated and audited to make sure they&#8217;re accurate.  But no such luck with broadband meters, for the most part.  Broadband Reports points out that it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dslreports.com\/shownews\/Who-Confirms-The-Accuracy-Of-ISP-Usage-Meters-106292\" >individuals will be on their own<\/a> to check on whether or not their ISP is being honest with them concerning how much bandwidth they use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100108\/0309327670.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100108\/0309327670.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100108\/0309327670&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=4ced42d38afc70e88ec1f79b3eafdb1a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=4ced42d38afc70e88ec1f79b3eafdb1a&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=w77wmKlt4x0:rKEBsXNFoXg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=w77wmKlt4x0:rKEBsXNFoXg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=w77wmKlt4x0:rKEBsXNFoXg:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/w77wmKlt4x0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various ISPs have been pushing for metered broadband for a while now, and we&#8217;ve wondered in the past who will monitor the broadband meters themselves to make sure they&#8217;re accurate? After all, with things like energy meters, they&#8217;re carefully regulated and audited to make sure they&#8217;re accurate. But no such luck with broadband meters, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2DH5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}