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RR206
join:2001-12-11
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RR206

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Not a peep.

And I've done 2+TB in a month,1TB regularly on 50Mb.
88615298 (banned)
join:2004-07-28
West Tenness

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said by RR206:

And I've done 2+TB in a month,1TB regularly on 50Mb.

And YOU'RE the reason for these caps in the first place. 2 TBs is simply redicuous. I know, you're only seeding Linux distros.

RR206
join:2001-12-11
united state

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RR206

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said by 88615298:

said by RR206:

And I've done 2+TB in a month,1TB regularly on 50Mb.

And YOU'RE the reason for these caps in the first place. 2 TBs is simply redicuous. I know, you're only seeding Linux distros.

Who still uses BitTorrent? And am I suposed to apologize? Get real.

I'm going to take as much as I can, for as long as I can, for as little as I can. I'm not in a one game town, so I doubt I'll ever hear anything.

Mulling 105Mb tier to see if I can hit 4 TB. Thanks for your concern though.
34764170 (banned)
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON

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said by 88615298:

2 TBs is simply redicuous.

If he had say an 8Mbps connection then I'd agree but at 50Mbps that's not even close to being true. They shouldn't be selling the speed tiers if they cannot provision the network to handle it. But it's pretty obvious they want to market speeds their network cannot actually handle if it was rolled out en masse.
Kearnstd
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Guessing you are on a "sleepy node", Back when they had the cap one thing I noticed about cap enforcement is if the node did not have many homes and/or never got TCs or Tickets for slow internet speeds than they would not always even bother to watch it. Where as someone in Center City Philly would be more likely to get the nastygram for going over because the node is likely running at 100% just by number of customers.
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Consider that a 10 Mbps Metro Ethernet connection costs in the $600-800 range. That's what it costs to provide a dedicated connection that you can max out for every second of every day.

Consumer Internet pricing depends on overprovisioning. If everyone maxed out their connection, then we'd all be paying dedicated pricing.

Consider that the average customer uses about 50 GB per month on cable. At 500 houses per node, with an 80% take rate, that's about 20 TB of usage per node. In other words, the commenter who was using 2 TB was accounting for 10% of the entire node's monthly Internet traffic!

The cable company cannot afford to sell you consumer Internet if you use it like a dedicated connection. Caps at least provide truth-in-advertising, which "unlimited" did not.
34764170 (banned)
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said by tanzam75:

Consider that a 10 Mbps Metro Ethernet connection costs in the $600-800 range. That's what it costs to provide a dedicated connection that you can max out for every second of every day.

Consumer Internet pricing depends on overprovisioning. If everyone maxed out their connection, then we'd all be paying dedicated pricing.

Consider that the average customer uses about 50 GB per month on cable. At 500 houses per node, with an 80% take rate, that's about 20 TB of usage per node. In other words, the commenter who was using 2 TB was accounting for 10% of the entire node's monthly Internet traffic!

The cable company cannot afford to sell you consumer Internet if you use it like a dedicated connection. Caps at least provide truth-in-advertising, which "unlimited" did not.

Then the cable co's should stop selling services they cannot handle. Caps are lies in advertising.
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said by 88615298:

And YOU'RE the reason for these caps in the first place.

No, it's to discourage people from actually using their Internet connection.
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said by tanzam75:

Consider that the average customer uses about 50 GB per month on cable. At 500 houses per node, with an 80% take rate, that's about 20 TB of usage per node. In other words, the commenter who was using 2 TB was accounting for 10% of the entire node's monthly Internet traffic!

I can use 2, 3, 4, 5TB a month during hours other than the peak hours and have ZERO impact on their network at peak hours. Peak hours is what matters.

aaronwt
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join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
Asus RT-AX89

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said by 88615298:

said by RR206:

And I've done 2+TB in a month,1TB regularly on 50Mb.

And YOU'RE the reason for these caps in the first place. 2 TBs is simply redicuous. I know, you're only seeding Linux distros.

Uploads count toward caps too. I'm on FiOS so I don't worry about caps and how much I use. And I haven't measured my usage in awhile. But with my backups I've been uploading to cloud storage each week and along with my normal usage. I'm sure I'm using several Terabytes each month. Especially since I was using 1TB to 2TB each month years ago when I was measuring my usage.