The Belgian ISP Telenet has posted via their forums an interesting list this week; the subscribers who have used the most bandwidth in the last month. At the top of the list was a user of their TurboNet service, and that subscriber used an incredibly high 2.7TB worth of bandwidth for the period of July 4th to August 6th. Continuing down the list were a few more users with excessive ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by 5fdpfan:Considering the "TurboNet" service is their mid-level service I'm actually surprised by this. The "TurboNet" service is €61.32/month for 30 Mbps down/1.25 Mbps up. Their most expensive service is €99/month for 100Mbps down/5 Mbps up.
Wow! Tha'ts freakin insane! These people using this much bandwidth must have no life at all whatsoever.
Originally posted by xyqo:
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 KillerBug:You schmo!
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.
Originally posted by lissenup2:Yeah remember no-one EVER EVER EVVVVEEER uses "terabits". Hold on apart from when their talking about bandwidth (30 Mbit connection for example). That's ok because this article has nothing to do with connection speeds......hold on again it does.
Originally posted by KillerBug:You schmo!
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.
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.
Originally posted by KillerBug:well some stuff you might not want the whole world knowing about but the government or your ISP isn't likely to go around telling everyone what you have been looking at.I'm sure there are rights in place that claim your isp and the government isnt allowed to give your data to the general public.
"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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