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How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much?
Semprini2k asks: "I just came home from work to find a letter waiting in the old snail mail box from my Broadband ISP. It has very nice titling on it: 'Notice of Acceptable Use Policy Violations' and also has an 'Abuse Ticket Number' associated with it. Has anyone else received these from their Broadband ISPs lately? Are they being overly cautious or are they working towards throwing off any users who might possible tax their network? I am trying not to be paranoid about this, but what are other people seeing and/or doing in this situation?" The "proper" bandwidth is liable to vary by region, but it would be interesting to note usage patters of people who are getting these letters versus those who aren't.
I called their toll-free number to inquire whether I could get access to their data. No, I cannot. All I can do is try to use less bandwidth and hope I do not see any more of these letters. 2 more and my service will be terminated."
"'Oh, no!' I think to myself, 'They think I'm a spammer!!!' But further reading sheds more light on the subject:
According to our aggregate bandwidth usage records, during December 2003 your [...ISP...] account exceeded [ISP's] bandwidth usage limitations. The activity associated with your account was more than 100 times the national median. This level of activity violates [ISP's] AUP."I freely admit to using a lot of bandwidth. From the day Fedora Core was released via BitTorrent I have kept an active BitTorrent session going to help others get it too. So I find this a bit of a concern.
I called their toll-free number to inquire whether I could get access to their data. No, I cannot. All I can do is try to use less bandwidth and hope I do not see any more of these letters. 2 more and my service will be terminated."
interesting to note usage patters
I'd be interested in finding out more about those too!
I just got an email from comcast saying "we've upgraded your broadband connection at no extra charge! Just unplug your cablemodem, wait 60 seconds, and then reconnect!"
Has anyone else gotten one of these? Maybe its just my area got an upgrade, but it seems you and I have far different ISPs.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
"I just came home from work to find a letter waiting in the old snail mail box from my Broadband ISP. It has very nice titling on it: 'Notice of Acceptable Use Policy Violations' and also has an 'Abuse Ticket Number' associated with it. Has anyone else received these from their Broadband ISPs lately? Are they being overly cautious or are they working towards throwing off any users who might possible tax their network? I am trying not to be paranoid about this, but what are other people seeing and/or doing in this situation?"
FYI- I've been using your PC to relay spam for about a year now. Just let me know what the acceptable use limits are and I'll cap my uploads accordingly. Thanks.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
would use so much bandwidth?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
>and had been using it as a Warez Joint over the past couple of days.
The same thing happend to me.
I just created a new ftp folder "upload_pr0n_here_please" and deleted the rest.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
My cable modem ISP is the only one offering this type of service in my town and it costs 35$ for 128kbsp/1.00GB traffic.. no more comments...
Which does not mean that clause has any validity in court - I could put a clause in a contract requiring you to wear a rubber duck on your head when you sleep. However, should you challenge it in court, it would most likely be held to be unenforcable.
Yeah, but since most people can't afford the monetary risk of going to court, they'll just wear the duck and curse under their breath.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
Yeah right. Now stop and think about it.
More than 99.99% of all people have more than the average number of legs.
"Please mod this up as funny."
Motion seconded.
You can Never have too muchj bandwidth what are you talking about
MonkeysKickAss
So what you're saying is that to we've just got to make the internet bigger? Okay... good luck.
content management for designers
It's RoadRunner, in Memphis. Seems pretty fast to not be local. Well, as fast a RR ever gets...
"I'm only causing the neighborhood loop to slow down"
I have cable, so I encourage ALL my neighbors to get DSL.
Your processor is so fast that you're running into the effects of relativity. If you underclock your CPU, the problem should go away (or at least lessen).