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by tzs 1316 days ago
> I have ATT fiber and they don't seem to mind of it running at 1Gbps both up and downstream continually 24/7.

Would they still not mind if all the rest of their customers also were doing 1 Gbps continuously 24/7?

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Depends how they architected the network.. maybe the design can scale and tolerate it up to a higher point compared to Comcast's ancient steaming pile.

Bandwidth hogs occur at a predictable rate.

It's amazing when a telco company actually delivers a product customers want. AT&T is somehow pulling it off despite their organizational dysfunction.

Somewhere at some point bandwidth runs out, though I suspect that it’s rarer now than it used to be (since capacities have increased but things to download really haven’t).