Philip Homburg wrote: > Maybe you can bring this to the main ripe-atlas mailing list? > I believe I did, awaiting feedback from other folks here. > So far we assume that 5 kbps is perfectly normal for a probe. And all > probes get a collection of measurements that results in that load. If > that load is a significant issue in some countries then it is worth > discussing how we should continue. > Not just some countries, I may rephrase it to "some operators". Billing is different from ISP to ISP. Depending on the technology of service, their contracts may be based on the speed or be bound to the volume.