[londons_explore]

How many hours can you saturate that 25 Gbit connection up and down before support calls you and tells you to knock it off?

[civiloid]

In my case, init7 defines that "fair use" is 0.5 PB per month. So that is about 40 hours until they start asking questions, I guess :)

I doubt I will be any close to that.

[k8sToGo]

Your account seems to be shadow banned (or not enough karma?). I vouched for this comment and your other comment so other people can read it.

[civiloid]

Thanks.

Yeah, I have something like 12 karma or so, and the account is newly registered (a few days ago). Unfortunately, HN doesn't seems to provide any workarounds for that.

[chaxor]

You absolutely should not ever get hassled for using a product that you already paid for, that's incredibly stupid. Unfortunately the US just treats anything that isn't a corporation like trash.

[zamadatix]

It's not necessarily the premise of a service with disjoint bandwidth and transfer amounts that's the problem IMO. Separating bandwidth and usage provides great value to most people who would otherwise have to pay for a much more expensive service if the two were always locked together literally. Where we could use better regulation is making the fair-use policies more upfront and useful so you don't have to dig for them or try to guess what they mean.

[tgtweak]

I ran about 8TB on my fiber in one month, and no ISP notices to speak of. That's only ~25mbps sustained. You could easily push 500+TB on a 25gbps connection if you were doing something naughty with it, and I'm sure you'd hear from them about it if you did!

[aidenn0]

I used 2TB on my cable modem once and got called with them trying to upsell me to Unlimited data for $75/mo more.

[xur17]

I regularly use 5 - 10 TB on my fiber each month, and have never been contacted.