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Ahh yes, but he had to tell them he was running servers. They just saw the overage and called to ask. What is a "any type of server" anyway? A p2p client listen
by noonespecial 13y ago
Ahh yes, but he had to tell them he was running servers. They just saw the overage and called to ask. What is a "any type of server" anyway? A p2p client listening for connections? A personal VPN end-point? Its a grey area ripe for selective TOS enforcement. Clearly this guy was over the top but its all part of "unlimited as long as you don't use it too much". Why should they care what runs on a connection? Just sell the damn bandwidth already.
- TylerE 13y agoNot that hard at all. A simple metric might be that if outbound > 0.20 * inbound, there's probably something going on, and that if outbound > inbound, huge red alerts should go off.
- noonespecial 13y agoI hope not. I use my FIOS for offsite backup to colo for the projects I work on. I'd guess I have about time and a half more outbound than in.
- TylerE 13y agoUnless your project is huge, I don't see that tripping anything off. If your project, is, say, 1GB, then it'd only take about 45 minutes of HQ Netflix streaming to balance out a complete upload.
- noonespecial 13y agoIts real estate stuff, audio, video, photos. I'd guess in the neighborhood of 3-5 gig/day. Sometimes lots more. I'd hate for a "30 gig day" to set off a bunch of alarms that had me explaining myself to some corporate enforcer all the time.
- bluedino 13y agoCouldn't they bust him for P2P or sharing illegal content? He said friends and family stream media from him, and I doubt he has a whole rack of hard drives to store legitimately owned data.
- redblacktree 13y agoThis is probably why he chose to remain anonymous.