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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?
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?
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.
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.
World amazed by new record.
"I never thought he would do it," said one spectator.
"I came here thinking I would win, and then this happened," said a contestant, followed by several expletives.
"You've gotta respect that," explained one of the judges.
"I agree. This is big important news," said a Slashdot editor.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
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?"
...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.