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Re: Comcast abuse phone call. I have been reading for sometime on this forum about abuse so I downloaded DU meter to see what mine was.
In the last 14 days I have been using my connection more than usual to upload and download Christmas pictures from my family and friends.
In those 14 days I have used 1.62 gig both ways.
The question I have is what can a person be using their connection for that uses 300 gig a month and still be legal?.
I am not trying to knock anyone, I would just like to know what is out there that could use that much bandwidth. |
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k6az
join:2003-09-13
Powhatan, VA | I'd like to know as well.
My December totals were 7.33 down, 1.24 up. The most bandwidth I've ever used in a month is 55gb and I was afraid of getting "the call" then. But 300gb? That is equal to over 60 DVDs. |
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18
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I pull 15-25GB per month...
I wouldn't mind taking that up a notch or two - if there was anything worth downloading, I might!
One small problem though... there isn't anything worth downloading!
Sure isn't any DVDs worth downloading, and one can only download so many Linux installs(I know, I've got most of them!). 
Sure wish one of these bandwidth hogs would just say(or at least *hint* to) what they find to download to equal 300-???GB per month.
None of this complaining about bandwidth caps, WTF are y'all downloading? 
EDIT: Clarified my GB/month usage.
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 hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
kudos:8 | reply to k6az
said by k6az:I'd like to know as well. My December totals were 7.33 down, 1.24 up. The most bandwidth I've ever used in a month is 55gb and I was afraid of getting "the call" then. But 300gb? That is equal to over 60 DVDs. Exactly. The people getting calls and letters know exactly what they are doing.
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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | reply to dadkins
said by dadkins:I pull 15-25GB per month... I wouldn't mind taking that up a notch or two - if there was anything worth downloading, I might! One small problem though... there isn't anything worth downloading! The most I've ever used in one month was 80gb down, and that was only because I was pissed off at my roommate for being late with his rent, so took it out on him in bandwidth (he was an avid gamer and bandwidth was worth more than diamonds to him).
But like Dadkins said, what 300gb is worth downloading? Surely you cant go through THAT much pr0n!
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 novaflareThe Dragon Was HerePremium
join:2002-01-24
Barberton, OH | reply to Wayne99021
said by Wayne99021:I have been reading for sometime on this forum about abuse so I downloaded DU meter to see what mine was. In the last 14 days I have been using my connection more than usual to upload and download Christmas pictures from my family and friends. In those 14 days I have used 1.62 gig both ways. The question I have is what can a person be using their connection for that uses 300 gig a month and still be legal?. I am not trying to knock anyone, I would just like to know what is out there that could use that much bandwidth. Never hit quite 300 gigs one road runner but came it at around 220 gigs of totaqlly legal downloads. 3 beta ganes with 100 to 1 gig patches ended up being about 200 megs daily per game on avarage once a week patch of aroun 350 to 1 gig per game once a month new download of 1.6 gig. Then there were the free but legal movies cant remember the site now but each was aprox 700 megs to 1 gig.
There are lots of legal ways to hit in the 150 to 250/300 gig range on dls. People who play with linux alot as a hobby could easly do it. Full debian distro on cd for off line install is 14 cds or are they up to 17 now? Then you got game demos that top the 1 gig mark alot now.
This is the same old comcast all over again. They will say things like national median mening the middle number of gigs when you look at the biggest downloaders in the country. So if thats 100 gigs then the median is 50 kick all off from the top half the number is 50 meaning now only 25 gigs is allowed.
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 CableToolPoorly Representing MYSELF.Premium
join:2004-11-12 | All this is true. Regardless of it being legit or not, it taxes the network and it is still a SHARED RESOURCE.
So if you need to DL 300-600gigs a month which is a continuous download for the entire month pretty much then you really should start looking at dedicated lines.
If you want to stay with a shared provider.. then act like you are on a shared network.
If anyone is really downloading 300 game demos a month or 300 LEGAL movies a month or patching your already downloaded games EVERY DAY with 200mb patches then you can easily afford the extra loot for the bandwidth. Becuase you are saving THOUSANDS a month.
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said by dadkins:Sure wish one of these bandwidth hogs would just say(or at least *hint* to) what they find to download to equal 300-???GB per month. None of this complaining about bandwidth caps, WTF are y'all downloading? EDIT: Clarified my GB/month usage. I know a guy that has web cams in and around his house (he claims security reasons) that stream out over a VPN when ever he logs in.. I know he us using a huge chink of BW with that.. 
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | Even if the cam(s) were using the full 768kbps upload, it would take a while to add up to anything worth mentioning.
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tishoo
join:2006-12-12
Ashburn, VA | reply to novaflare
said by novaflare:Never hit quite 300 gigs one road runner but came it at around 220 gigs of totaqlly legal downloads. ... Then there were the free but legal movies cant remember the site now but each was aprox 700 megs to 1 gig. Riiigghhhhhtttt!  |
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