I had about 350 GB combined traffic in the month when I got called the first
time.  The second time it was because of 50GB uploaded in a week (that was
from seeding Ubuntu 7.10 ;) )

- Justin

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Caudill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:19 PM
To: Justin Walker
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] rate limiting (WAS [OT] Comcast users in the area)

How much you have transferred to be in the top 1%? Which ISP? I need to 
monitor how much I use because I really have no idea. (A lot.)

Justin Walker wrote:
> I've been there a couple times, too.  I just lay off the torrent traffic
for
> a couple weeks and then go back to normal.
> 
> - Justin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Andrei Krotkov
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 6:41 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] rate limiting (WAS [OT] Comcast users in the area)
> 
> I consider our household to be relatively normal, but we were
> informed, after they cut out our service for a few days, that we were
> the top 1% of the top 1%. They consider their top 1% to be their
> problem users, and they send messages to the top 1% of their problem
> users.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> i'm fine with going slower (which it is most of the time) than 1.6Mbits,
>> but --within reason-- I don't like the idea of having to track down my
> usage and
>> pay for every GB i'm over the limit.
>>
>> My understanding is that the capping is driven by an abuse of a very
small
>> minority of users.
>>
>> - peter
>>
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