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Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz)
An anonymous reader cites an amusing article on Stuff: When Telstra offered its mobile customers unlimited data for two separate days this year as compensation for network outages, some customers took it as a challenge to download as much as they possibly could in one day. On Sunday, 27-year-old Sydney resident John Szaszvari outdid himself and everyone else by ploughing through almost a whole terabyte of data. That's more than double what he managed during the first free data day in February -- an already mammoth 425GB.
This is why we can't have nice things.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Works of Shakespeare, Ibsen and Beethoven performed live in theaters and concert halls in Sydney and Melbourne?
that was awesome clickbait and story.
I had to click and read.
Tocuhe!
He may not be the hero we want, but he's the hero we deserve. Good on ya, mate!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
All ye who would piss and moan about capped network plans: Consider how much of your unlimited internet plan's cost would be subsidizing some stoner's gigantic Simpsons hoard. Hint: It's bigger than yours.
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From the article...
And then the downloads began: 14 seasons of MythBusters; 24 seasons of The Simpsons; the entire Wikipedia database; Microsoft software for his job; updates for his Xbox games; and "a lot of random other stuff". He also synced all his Spotify playlists offline..."It's always movie/TV night at my house at the moment."
With all that binge-watching, when does he ever has any time to do his job?
Do the math: this works out to an average of 11.6 Mbytes/s . Just about the same as a saturated 100baseT. He must have used a fleet of [cloned/family] devices, each on good towers.
In order to download 1 TB in 24 hours he would have to average 93 Mbps. I don't see that happening on a mobile connection.
994GB.
neigh!
That's a lot of porn.
1. Download the list of users.
2. Sort by the usage
3. Select the top user
For the selected user publicly start shaming, start puffing cheeks and rolling eyes.
Well, that is statistics... You will always have a percentile that uses more service than others. The question is why this is a surprise.
Mr Vilfredo Pareto discovered this phenomena 120 years ago.
I expected the article to say that he owes a few World GDPs to Testra as a result, but alas, it was all free...
Show 'em who's boss
He should have had a way to just pump /dev/random across the cellular network and into /dev/null on the receiving side.
His mistake was actually downloading real data instead of just trying to see how much crap he could push through the network.
World amazed by new record.
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I don't have a data plan and I am able to live a great life
1 terabyte in 24 hours comes to 41.6 gigabytes an hour.
Is this AT&T billing rules?
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This 1 TB/day threshold rang a bell as I remembered a BSD trumpeting a similar record, albeit in the opposite direction, in the late 1990s... and sure enough, Slashdot covered it back then:
Wcarchive Does 1.39tb In 24 Hours
Back then people had serious discussions about what sort of storage controller, network interface, and upstream connectivity was needed to achieve this result. Nowadays we can stuff that same performance in a trouser pocket. What an age to live in.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
It is inconsiderate people like this that causes the rest of us to have caps in the first place. Yea, yea, I know - any company with more than $100 is evil, and this guy is "the people" so whatever he does is good. Give me a break.
Marketers have a dilemma. Advertising "unlimited data" is simple and enticing as a sales pitch. However, a small percentage of customers WILL take full advantage of it.
If the marketers counter that by stating limits and disclaimers, which they have to do if they don't want to be sued, then they get less sales because the conditions and disclaimers scare away a fair amount of customers.
They are trying to decide if having more customers is worth living with a few bad apples (from their perspective) who run up the data.
The best pricing in my opinion would be priced increments, such as N bytes included in the base plan, and $X more for every Y bytes over N, with a PROMPT confirming you wish to pay for the next increment of Y.
However, don't outright cut it off if payment is not approved, but rather gradually throttle it heavier and heavier, but don't charge for the overages. The throttle-time would be allowed to consume say up to 25% of Y without the extra payment (although that's a minor issue), until the data flow is zero. That way if you are in the middle of something and can't stop to answer a prompt, it doesn't outright stop.
It's a "soft and friendly wall". And it can bring in nice revenue for the service provider as people readily approve increments. It's convenient for BOTH SIDES once they buy into it.
But this approach is hard to word in a contract that makes sense to most customers. It's the "logical" way to do it, in my opinion, but hard to describe to typical customers, and that's why marketers don't do it that way.
I don't fully blame the service providers, they are just trying to compete with other service providers in the same boat. And you could blame the consumers for not being patient enough to research the details (if presented with such a plan), but humans are humans.
Maybe we need a little socialism to force a common set of plan options, with the above being one of them. People will get used to it. They sometimes don't know what's good for them until they see it in action for a while.
Table-ized A.I.
Stargate Atlantis needs to come back!
That's a lot of porn!
It wouldn't be possible to do exactly but something analogous to the old frame relay days would be fine with me. A committed rate then anything over that is marked discard eligible. If the network has capacity then the data moves, if not it is dropped.
Maybe I could selectively choose what applications or streams are marked DE. That would be ok too.
He still needs more than 2 days to download the complete Panama Papers archive.
If my math is correct, that's over 10 megs/second average for the whole day. ...how!?
They're just another money-grab promoted under the name of "decency" and "fairness".
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I was told their internet is slow and unusable -- they basically don't have internet
that's one serious porn addiction!!
What he downloaded and the mobile company gave him the speed... usually when you get free data. speed suckss.......
I struggle to hit my 15Gb data limit