Fair Share Quota

[LeftEyeNine]

So we have caught up with "modern civilizations standards !!11" in terms of "fair usage" ?

Oh boy. We always get it all wrong.

[Tellos Athenaios]

No you haven't quite caught up. Limits may be there, but when I googled what such a limit would be all I got was a bunch of forum posts that say roughly:

• Nobody knows, certainly the helpdesk does not.
• "I downloaded 500GB in 3 weeks and I didn't run into limits..."
• A recollection of events from a court case about someone who downloaded north of 1Tb a month whose contract was apparently terminated over that.

Those were posts from 2007.

Infrastructure has been upgraded a bit since then, and in principle "unlimited" means "you're fine until we can finger you as the one who keeps using up all the tubes".

EDIT: That was about Cable/ADSL, not about mobile Internet.

[Fragony]

No you haven't quite caught up. Limits may be there, but when I googled what such a limit would be all I got was a bunch of forum posts that say roughly:

• Nobody knows, certainly the helpdesk does not.
• "I downloaded 500GB in 3 weeks and I didn't run into limits..."
• A recollection of events from a court case about someone who downloaded north of 1Tb a month whose contract was apparently terminated over that.

Those were posts from 2007.

Infrastructure has been upgraded a bit since then, and in principle "unlimited" means "you're fine until we can finger you as the one who keeps using up all the tubes".

EDIT: That was about Cable/ADSL, not about mobile Internet.

Had one of these 'dongels' and apparantly I broke the fair-use deal. Which is odd as it was too slow to even watch a youtube video, a 56k modem was faster. I used it only for internet and mailing. They cut me off after 2 months and wanted to make me pay for two years, yeah right see you in court no judge would go for that. Never heard from them (kpn) again.

[atheotes]

Here in India, they dont terminate your contract. I have a 2 mbps (upto 30 gb per month) ADSL connection that will drop to 256 kbps after the 30 GB limit. i pay ~$25 USD for it. You can increase the limit by paying more :). Of course if you pay some extra again, you can get more @ 2mbps. they do make it very clear though when you sign up.

when i was in US (virginia) comcast was notorious for dropping speed after 60 gb usage and there was no fine print about it.

[Andres]

It's not limitless, but I'd have to try very hard to go over the limit really.

[Moros]

It's not limitless, but I'd have to try very hard to go over the limit really.

Yeah we were at one time lagging behind when it came to this, but due to protesting and I think Quickenborne (or was it someone else) we now actually have it quite well.

[Fragony]

Here in India, they dont terminate your contract. I have a 2 mbps (upto 30 gb per month) ADSL connection that will drop to 256 kbps after the 30 GB limit. i pay ~$25 USD for it. You can increase the limit by paying more :). Of course if you pay some extra again, you can get more @ 2mbps. they do make it very clear though when you sign up.

when i was in US (virginia) comcast was notorious for dropping speed after 60 gb usage and there was no fine print about it.

I believe they don't do it anymore, it was just new when I got it. Costed 50 euro(!) per month, was as fast as a bucket of empty wheelchairs without wheels uphill and I couldn't possibly gone over the limit as I never downloaded anything, way too slow for that

[Beskar]

With Virgin Media, it is "Limitless", but if you download anything big during peak hours, they put you on the "slow-internet", for 3 hours. So the best thing to do with them is to play games and the like during stream hours and save the downloads for off-peak.

Even then, I am apparently on 100mb/s and I only seem to get speeds of 400kb/s on most downloads such as Steam. (when I downloaded Team Fortress 2 last night)

[edyzmedieval]

There's no limit whatsoever in my contract - the only limit is the physical limit of the bandwith that can go through the internet cables.