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Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz)

Posted by msmash on from the who-doesn't-like-free-downloads? dept.

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.

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  1. This. by pushing-robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why we can't have nice things.

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    1. Re:This. by Calydor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, this proves that my phone provider's ridiculous cap of 200 MB per month truly is ridiculous!

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    2. Re:This. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is why we can't have nice things.

      You just need to get an ISP with a rigorous electron/photon recycling program.

    3. Re:This. by Maritz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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. ;)

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    4. Re:This. by religionofpeas · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

    5. Re:This. by jittles · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

      We have no room for your "physics" nonsense around here, buddy. Go back to YouTube with all those ridiculous evolution and other psuedoscience videos. People come to Slashdot to discuss real science. Come back when you've finally learned the earth is flat.

  2. Begs the question... by Pollux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

    1. Re:Begs the question... by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

      His job is posting pro Msft comments on Slashdot...

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  3. Japanese Man eats 59 hotdogs in one day by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  4. The unrelenting march of technological progress by red_dragon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  5. Re:It is called Pareto principle by VorpalRodent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mr Vilfredo Pareto discovered this phenomena 120 years ago.

    This was all the more impressive considering the limited 4G coverage at the time.

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