Belgian ISP subscriber used 2.7TB of bandwidth last month

Wow! Tha'ts freakin insane! These people using this much bandwidth must have no life at all whatsoever. How many movies albums does one person need in one month's time? My goodness, it's no wonder ISP's are cappping their service with knuckleheads like those on this list.

Wow, just wow!

It just sounds like they are a good company to set up seedboxes with. There is probably more than 1 user on those lines with 1-2TB of bandwidth.

Those guys have got to be super pirates to be downloading so much in so little time.

Originally posted by 5fdpfan:

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Wow! Tha'ts freakin insane! These people using this much bandwidth must have no life at all whatsoever.

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correct me if wrong and I very well could be but this guy had to be using ~90% of the capability of a 30 mbps connection 24 hrs a day for 30 days

Originally posted by xyqo:

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correct me if wrong and I very well could be but this guy had to be using ~90% of the capability of a 30 mbps connection 24 hrs a day for 30 days

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Just to be clear, was this TB or tb? Usually service providers say everything in bits because it seems like 8x more.

I could almost agree with speed regulations if they were not so unreasonable. I mean, if someone is paying for 100mbps, and you drop them to .5mbps for using too much, that is terrible. It should be more of a plan-drop...you are using too much of your 100mbps connection, so now it drops to a 50mbps connection, or a 50 to 25, or whatever.

In the end, the company is selling a service for a monthly fee. They knew that there would be people like this, they included them in their numbers, and they did the math. They figured out they could still make a fortune, so they built the networks, sold the hardware, and signed up the customers. Now, the greedy bastards decide that they just are not making enough millions per month, and that they should shave a few thousand from their costs at the expense of their users...and they throw this crap online to justify it.

It is possible this guy could be in an apartment building using unprotected wireless with up to 20 or more people using his internet connection.

if they are willing to pay for it they can use as much as they want and should be allowed to use as much as they want.

I would not be surprised if it was TB, I know some people in Canada that have set up seed boxes to build ratio in private torrent boards and they have easily reached a TB or 2.

4TB?????????

That's overkill, that's ridiculous and that's clearly a MASSIVE leecher and copyright infringer whom contributes nothing back EVER. That's an internet jihadist and normal rules shouldn't apply to him/her (though it's no doubt a 'her'). They should be banned, investigated and kicked with a giant Australian boot.

Anyone and I mean ANYONE that's downloading even close to 1TB in a month is a useless leecher and copyright infringer and should be forced to perform 10,000 hours of community service to compensate for all they took and didn't give back................this coming from me who DOES download movies and games but I buy a lot of Blu-rays and games too. There's no excuse to take and take and take and not give back. I'm sure these are the same people with the mentality of "If Hollywood did not produce crap/junk then I'd buy their stuff", yet they probably paid to go see what they're calling "junk/crap". Hypocrisy at it's finest.

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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Just to be clear, was this TB or tb? Usually service providers say everything in bits because it seems like 8x more.

I could almost agree with speed regulations if they were not so unreasonable. I mean, if someone is paying for 100mbps, and you drop them to .5mbps for using too much, that is terrible. It should be more of a plan-drop...you are using too much of your 100mbps connection, so now it drops to a 50mbps connection, or a 50 to 25, or whatever.

In the end, the company is selling a service for a monthly fee. They knew that there would be people like this, they included them in their numbers, and they did the math. They figured out they could still make a fortune, so they built the networks, sold the hardware, and signed up the customers. Now, the greedy bastards decide that they just are not making enough millions per month, and that they should shave a few thousand from their costs at the expense of their users...and they throw this crap online to justify it.

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2.7TB... wow... that must be a LOT... and i mean a LOT of Porn!

Originally posted by lissenup2:

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Originally posted by KillerBug:

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Just to be clear, was this TB or tb? Usually service providers say everything in bits because it seems like 8x more.

I could almost agree with speed regulations if they were not so unreasonable. I mean, if someone is paying for 100mbps, and you drop them to .5mbps for using too much, that is terrible. It should be more of a plan-drop...you are using too much of your 100mbps connection, so now it drops to a 50mbps connection, or a 50 to 25, or whatever.

In the end, the company is selling a service for a monthly fee. They knew that there would be people like this, they included them in their numbers, and they did the math. They figured out they could still make a fortune, so they built the networks, sold the hardware, and signed up the customers. Now, the greedy bastards decide that they just are not making enough millions per month, and that they should shave a few thousand from their costs at the expense of their users...and they throw this crap online to justify it.

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You schmo!

TB or TERABYTES. Terabits are NEVER used in the world of IT...............NEVER EVER EVER. 8 bits = 1 byte, 1024 = 1MB

If "terabits" were used then we'd be talking about numbers passing the trillions which is relatively impractical. Kinda like 'Calorie'. They actually are KCals and you'll notice that in the US ALL food has calories with a capital C meaning KCals because 100 Calories is ridiculous to refer to as 100,000 calories all the time, besides being intimidating and making hard to some food producers to sell certain foods to people knowing that a million calories are in some things.

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What bothers me most about this story is that someone is actually keeping track of exactly how much data is going to a specific IP address. That's like some entity keeping track of how many miles I put on my car or how many calories I consume in a day. This is a bothersome precedent. If this ISP is aware and keeps track of every bit moving up and down my IP address, then it is also perfectly feasible for them to know and track every website and file I view and download. This is very scary. Good thing I'm not running for office.

Yes, you are monitored while on the internet...did you think it was some other way? Did you think the internet was a vast anonymous "wild west"? Well, it isn't 1985 anymore. If you don't like it, do what I do: use a VPN.

who really cares if your monitered on the internet.Now your monitered everywhere you go anyway.thanx to google earth.not to mention practically every shop has a security camera.Unless your using the internet for something highly illegal it shouldnt bother you.

"Unless your using the internet for something highly illegal it shouldnt bother you."

Just because it is legal, that does not mean you want the whole world to know about it. For that matter, just because it is legal, that does not mean that the government won't kill you because of it.

lisinup2-You are not quite correct when you say that 1024 = 1MB unless you are talking about 1024KB which would be 1048576 bytes.

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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"Unless your using the internet for something highly illegal it shouldnt bother you."

Just because it is legal, that does not mean you want the whole world to know about it. For that matter, just because it is legal, that does not mean that the government won't kill you because of it.

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I have a feeling that this user is running a private internet service providing facility to any number of people within his own building and neighboring ones!

Believe me I know how this works!