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Re: [Internet] I used 13 Gigs in a day!? O_O

lethal:I pay a large sum of money to enjoy my broadband connection. What most ISP's seem to forget is that at one point in time people would only pay a small fee a month which wasn't profitable and overcharging for usage was normal.

In today's world this is no longer the case. Bandwidth is dirt cheap and the backbone now exists. I understand your statement if a user who pays lets say $10 a month uses 1TB thats abusive. But, alot of us pay in the $50 - $120+ range. The main reason I have my fast connection is for quick download of large files and the ability to not care what I download.

Even if your dirt cheap bandwidth is 10c per GB (which I personally believe is way too low a figure, but anyway, just for argument's sake I'll go with that), 1 TB is STILL $100 in bandwidth costs alone, so unless you're willing to pay more than your $120 per month as a minimum, you're not letting the ISP make money.

If you were to go with what I suspect is more realistic in the 25 - 50c per GB range, then unless you're paying $275-525 per month, you'd be costing an ISP money.