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Comcast really doesn't mind if you go over the 250Gb/month limit. http://i.imgur.com/VkuiD.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VkuiD.jpg

mtklein 15y ago
They gave me a wrist-slap call when I used 2.x TB in a month. That was before I realized there was a 250GB limit on my unlimited plan...
- TimothyBurgess 15y ago
  What in the world are you people downloading all the time to be using that much bandwidth?
sp332 15y ago
I was disconnected for going over a few months in a row. They put me on a one-year blacklist for that. But it turns out that only the "residential" access has caps, and the lowest "business" tier was about the same speed for not much more money. By my reckoning, I'm now pushing almost 40 TB/mo (mostly bittorrent, all legal) and no complaints from Comcast.
- klbarry 15y ago
  Is this for work/science? What could you possibly download 40 TB of monthly? I am just curious.
  - ZachPruckowski 15y ago
    I imagine if you were one of the MAJOR seeders for a legal torrent (Open Source software, CC content, etc.) you could easily hit that. If 1000 people download a 5GB Linux distro from you, that's 5 TB. Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time.
    - billybob 15y ago
      "Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time" If you were using version control, couldn't you push just the diffs?
      - chopsueyar 15y ago
        Does it work the same for binaries as text?
        allenp 15y ago
        There are definitely systems that will just send the bytes that have changed (and their locations naturally). DropBox does this: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631 http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631
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  - ramchip 15y ago
    Yes, that's impressive. Our largest plan here has 30GB of transfers per month... (Canada)
  - sp332 15y ago
    Hm, on inspection I am off by about a factor of 10, but if I had a faster net connection, I could hit that without too much trouble. I've got the usual Ubuntu ISO's and some more experimental OS's like "Elementary OS". I use uTorrent, which has mini-apps available. Most of the apps are just channels for content, so I've got Make Magazine channel, which only has old videos by now; TED talks, which are always popular; Pioneer One, which is an indie made-for-the-web TV show I like; and Khan Academy videos which use a lot of bandwidth because they've packaged an entire unit per torrent. In addition I'm downloading the Geocities torrent [1], and I got a bunch of video presentations from the Chaos Communications Congress back in December which are still in demand [2]. Since I last rebooted, the most popular torrents I have are videos from The Next HOPE conference, and BackTrack 4. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840481 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840481 and http://www.archiveteam.org/archives/geocitiespatch/ http://www.archiveteam.org/archives/geocitiespatch/ [2] http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html and ftp://media.ccc.de/congress/2010/mp4-h264-HQ/

mtklein 15y ago

They gave me a wrist-slap call when I used 2.x TB in a month. That was before I realized there was a 250GB limit on my unlimited plan...

TimothyBurgess 15y ago
What in the world are you people downloading all the time to be using that much bandwidth?

sp332 15y ago

I was disconnected for going over a few months in a row. They put me on a one-year blacklist for that. But it turns out that only the "residential" access has caps, and the lowest "business" tier was about the same speed for not much more money. By my reckoning, I'm now pushing almost 40 TB/mo (mostly bittorrent, all legal) and no complaints from Comcast.

klbarry 15y ago
Is this for work/science? What could you possibly download 40 TB of monthly? I am just curious.
- ZachPruckowski 15y ago
  I imagine if you were one of the MAJOR seeders for a legal torrent (Open Source software, CC content, etc.) you could easily hit that. If 1000 people download a 5GB Linux distro from you, that's 5 TB. Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time.
  - billybob 15y ago
    "Or if you're working with something like video or CAD and constantly sending slightly changed multi-GB files around each time" If you were using version control, couldn't you push just the diffs?
    - chopsueyar 15y ago
      Does it work the same for binaries as text?
      - allenp 15y ago
        There are definitely systems that will just send the bytes that have changed (and their locations naturally). DropBox does this: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631 http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631
        deleted 15y ago
        [deleted]
- ramchip 15y ago
  Yes, that's impressive. Our largest plan here has 30GB of transfers per month... (Canada)
- sp332 15y ago
  Hm, on inspection I am off by about a factor of 10, but if I had a faster net connection, I could hit that without too much trouble. I've got the usual Ubuntu ISO's and some more experimental OS's like "Elementary OS". I use uTorrent, which has mini-apps available. Most of the apps are just channels for content, so I've got Make Magazine channel, which only has old videos by now; TED talks, which are always popular; Pioneer One, which is an indie made-for-the-web TV show I like; and Khan Academy videos which use a lot of bandwidth because they've packaged an entire unit per torrent. In addition I'm downloading the Geocities torrent [1], and I got a bunch of video presentations from the Chaos Communications Congress back in December which are still in demand [2]. Since I last rebooted, the most popular torrents I have are videos from The Next HOPE conference, and BackTrack 4. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840481 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840481 and http://www.archiveteam.org/archives/geocitiespatch/ http://www.archiveteam.org/archives/geocitiespatch/ [2] http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html and ftp://media.ccc.de/congress/2010/mp4-h264-HQ/