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dont worry, mercans. we're even slower!
Havok:
--- Quote from: boykster on June 28, 2007, 12:33:45 am ---
--- Quote from: jbox on June 27, 2007, 08:31:19 pm ---How "unlimited" really are these "unlimited" plans? With 10Mb download speed you should be able to do a couple of hundred gigs in a month, and the ISP *really* isn't going to come around to your house with a baseball bat? ???
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not as "unlimited" as they lead you to believe. I got flagged for "abuse" one month for having 300gigs of download traffic. I'm on probation and one more month of "too high usage" or "abuse" and I get kicked. This is comcast cablemodem.
:dunno
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That's what I love about competition: Time Warner cable is losing people all over to FIOS in my neighborhood. They will just stop short of kissing your behind to keep you as a customer. When I cancelled them I got all kinds of offers to stay or come back...
As far as FIOS, they want to burn cable and take as many subscribers away. I personally do about 100GB a month easy, and my wife loves to leave QVC streaming video running on her pc pretty much at all times, which must use a decent amount of bandwidth as well. All this, and not so much as a peep from Verizon...
:applaud:
boykster:
Trust me, I was blown away when I got a call from the Comcast Network Fraud and Abuse department :scared
I probably average 200gigs of download traffic a month, but had a spike that month that led to the flagging. They said I was in the top 1% of traffic nationwide for that month....I guess I should feel special ;D
shardian:
--- Quote from: boykster on June 28, 2007, 01:38:00 pm ---Trust me, I was blown away when I got a call from the Comcast Network Fraud and Abuse department :scared
I probably average 200gigs of download traffic a month, but had a spike that month that led to the flagging. They said I was in the top 1% of traffic nationwide for that month....I guess I should feel special ;D
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You must have the largest porn collection in the world!
Seriously, I can't even fathom downloading 300 gb of stuff in one month, much less AVERAGING 200 gb every month. What do you do with all that stuff, because it is obvious there aren't enough hours in the day to watch/listen/play all of it. I'd flag you too!
boykster:
I work from home, as well as host some prototype web systems from my home network, so I get a LOT of in/out traffic ust from that. Add to that, downloading from a MSDN subscription and some usenet usage, and 200gigs is easy to hit. The month I hit 300gigs I was out of town for a few weeks and setup to download a bunch of MSDN updates....about 100gigs just in that shot.
And nope, my pRon collection is meager...I don't think I have anything stored on my home network. :dunno
shardian:
If you let them know why you have that much bandwidth, they'll probably make you get a business account.
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