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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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This is why we can't have nice things.
You just need to get an ISP with a rigorous electron/photon recycling program.
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.
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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