 Ben JPremium
join:2011-09-16
Elk Grove, CA
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Trial Information: To better understand the dynamics of network utilization and network congestion, Frontier has instituted a trial in select markets (Kingman, AZ; Elk Grove, CA; Palo Cedro, CA; Mound, MN; Cookeville, TN; and Crossville, TN) to measure actual bandwidth consumption by application type. Frontier does not capture any site-specific information or restrict or inhibit the use of any applications. Frontier simply measures the amount of consumer bandwidth consumption by general type of application utilized (web-browsing, voice calling, video streaming, etc.). In the affected markets, high bandwidth users (e.g. usage over 100Gb or 250Gb of data per month) are advised to either limit usage or convert to a high user service plan.
Aside from that, we have traffic analysis tools in many of the markets, but they are not really configured to track bandwidth of users. We use them for capacity planning and analysis for the broader network and some anonymized statistics. There have been a couple instances where a support engineer using those tools will find what Frontier deems a ToS violation and causing problems for someone else (e.g., a residential FiOS user running a full-blown data center out of their garage) while investigating a network issue, and they might get a letter as a result and maybe moved to another service tier. But there is no official cap and nobody is actively hunting high-bandwidth users in those markets. For now, if you're not causing a problem for anybody else, nobody is likely to notice/care.
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