Soren Harward wrote:
On Fri 25 Jul 2003 at 08:49:06, Wade Preston Shearer said:I dunno, Xmission had the same (or similar) limits and I never went over. That's gotta be partly because I tend to download ISOs at work rather than home though.
...but I am not sure about the 2.5 GB transfer. Anyone have any idea how much data one normally uses in a month... with regular internet use (email, surfing, uploading files to my server)?
It's pretty easy to go over 5 GB/month if you're a moderate user. I guess if you are aggressive about bandwidth management, you can keep it down to 2.5 GB/month -- but just so you know, that's an average of less than 1K/sec continually over the month. I usually run about 15 GB.
Just as a sidenote though, shouldn't ISPs NOT charge for transfer size. They only pay for the bandwidth, so why should they decide how many GBs I like to use? I think its just wrong to set limits. Ofcourse, they probably do it for 2 reasons IMHO,
1. To discourage people from filesharing and the like.
2. To Make More Money (tm) :)
What If I wanted to download the Debian Woody ISOs. What if I liked America's Army for Linux as well as Windows, they weigh in at about 800MB each. If I play online, I'll run up the limit too. If I listen to kbyu FM online, I'll run out again.
I just think they should stop trying to fool customers like this. (I'd like to hear if they *do* have to pay for how many GBs *they* use per month).
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Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Electrical Engineering Sysop
Brigham Young University, UT-84602
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