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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.
No, this proves that my phone provider's ridiculous cap of 200 MB per month truly is ridiculous!
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To stop morons from you from using wireless
Why is it always just when you insult someone that your proof-reading skills disappear into the abyss... Now you just look plain silly, AC. ;)
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Which is why every time they roll out new networking technology and tell us a) how awesome it is, and b) that we should splash out on a new phone to use it ... that I have no choice but to think "yeah, sure, in theory, but you'll never upgrade your system to allow anything like the demo".
Every time they tell us how awesome the network is, how fast it will be, and all of the cool things we'll be able to do with it, they then turn around and say "but you can't really use it because if everybody did that the network would collapse".
This stuff is pure marketing lies. They're never going to give you even a fraction of what the marketing campaign about how awesome it is tells you you're going to get.
If they showed you what you'd really be getting, they'd be advertising a Ferrari, and giving you a Ford Pinto. It's all lies. I just have no idea how such blatantly false advertising is even legal.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
There is plenty of bandwidth to go around.
That depends entirely where you are, and how many people are sharing the same cell tower/sector with you.
Actually it shows that the bandwidth that we all paid for is sitting mostly idle, in order to use the artificial scarcity for market segmentation. Remember, bandwidth cannot be saved or stored. None of that 1.4TB of data which that man transferred on those two days was borrowed from some other day or slowed anything down before or after those two days. That bandwidth was available right then and there, and had he not used it, it would have gone to waste.
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.
...and to keep idiots from pumping /dev/random across the cellular network and into /dev/null in order to burn bandwidth for the sake of burning bandwidth.