Belgian ISP Claims One Customer Downloads 2.7TB

Posted by timothy on Friday August 20, 2010 @09:04PM from the and-he-was-just-a-tiny-guy dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this envy-spawning excerpt: "While for most people the data limit is never reached, with media-rich websites becoming every more prevalent, and more media services going online (we're looking at you streaming video services), it won't be long before the average user is surpassing even the highest caps commonly imposed today. But how much data is it possible to download every month? And do the so-called data-hogs really burn through that much more data than everyone else? According to Belgian ISP Telenet, the answers are 'a lot' and 'yes, they can.'"

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What is the actual cost to the ISP? by thue · 2010-08-20 21:37 · Score: 4, Interesting

Based on what we are paying for Internet traffic, 2TB of traffic would very roughly cost about $50.
So since this is their one biggest user, and even he is probably paying more than $50 for his internet connection, I don't see the problem with bandwidth hogs.