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FiOS User Finds Limit of 'Unlimited' Data Plan: 77 TB/Month
An anonymous reader writes "A California user of Verizon's FiOS fiber-optic internet service put his unlimited data plan to the test. Over the month of March, he totaled over 77 terabytes of internet traffic, which finally prompted a call from a Verizon employee to see what he was doing. The user had switched to a 300Mbps/65Mbps plan in January, and averaged 50 terabytes of traffic per month afterward. 'An IT professional who manages a test lab for an Internet storage company, [the user] has been providing friends and family a personal VPN, video streaming, and peer-to-peer file service—running a rack of seven servers with 209TB of raw storage in his house.' The Verizon employee who contacted him said he was violating the service agreement. "Basically he said that my bandwidth usage was excessive (like 30,000 percent higher than their average customer)," [the user] said. '[He] wanted to know WTF I was doing. I told him I have a full rack and run servers, and then he said, "Well, that's against our ToS." And he said I would need to switch to the business service or I would be disconnected in July. It wasn't a super long call.'"
Yes, but if you don't allow such kind of usage, don't advertise it as unlimited. So in my book, it's Verizon who's wrong here.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Well both parties are to blame.
Verizon - false advertising
Customer - breaking the Terms of Service (TOS)
You know that old cliche: "To every story there are 3 versions: his side, her side, the and the truth in the middle."
this guy was running a server in violation of the TOS
he was running VPN services for people as well as sharing out movies
he had a rack, real servers and terabytes of storage in the house
someone with no life