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Haha, 77 TB on a residential plan. I mean, come on, I understand 500GB, maybe 1 TB (I personally never used more than 250GB in a month), but this is ridiculous.
by jotm 13y ago
Haha, 77 TB on a residential plan. I mean, come on, I understand 500GB, maybe 1 TB (I personally never used more than 250GB in a month), but this is ridiculous. I'm surprised Verizon didn't shut him down way earlier...
- dictum 13y ago500GB or 1TB is a quite low bar for "unlimited", especially given FiOS speeds. (Not that 77TB isn't an insane amount for a customer, but the point is: the fact that most people don't use their connection to its full potential doesn't mean nobody should.)
- mikeash 13y ago500GB would be completely ridiculous. On the 300Mbps plan this guy has, you could go through that in less than four hours.
- MAGZine 13y agoThrow in a couple 50GB game downloads, some TV, some music, file downloads and you'll easily break 250GB. Netflix HD will chew throw bandwidth pretty fast, especially if you have a couple people in the house watching at the same time. ... And game will only get larger, bitrates will only go up.
- zurn 13y agoNetflix's HD is 3.8-5 Mbps, compared to Blu-Ray's 30-40 Mbps. Lots of things "want" a lot more bandwidth than they're currently getting by with, even services that seem very bandwidth hungry now.
- callahad 13y agoOnce you have a symmetric fiber connection, it becomes surprisingly easy to find ways to fill that pipe. For instance, it's suddenly feasible to to fully mirror all of your local storage to multiple online services, or to run an OpenVPN endpoint for personal use and send all of your traffic through it when out and about.