The world’s biggest bandwidth hog?

No one fear, the internet is safe, he backed it up for us
 
old article but the guy as well said he shares his data with friends and family that gets free vpn into that network to share and use the data
 
This is only news because he pushed the uncapped limits on a residential line in regard with these two reasons:

1. high volume purposes
2. host any type of server

He violated the bandwidth restrictions which resulted into service suspension or service termination. Should he use a business service them we would never even heard about this.

I’m sure his hogging is not even touching the top bandwidth hoggers.
 
Eat your bandwidth, there are hungry kids in (South) Africa
 
Fulcrum29 said:
This is only news because he pushed the uncapped limits on a residential line in regard with these two reasons:

1. high volume purposes
2. host any type of server

He violated the bandwidth restrictions which resulted into service suspension or service termination. Should he use a business service them we would never even heard about this.

I’m sure his hogging is not even touching the top bandwidth hoggers.
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Actually, from the article I read, they 'asked' him to upgrade to the business package indicating that the product he was using was not designed for that purpose.

They did not, as do certain SA ISP's, summarily cut him off.


Oops - left out a "not"
 
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AfricanTech said:
Actually, from the article I read, they 'asked' him to upgrade to the business package indicating that the product he was using was designed for that purpose.

They did not, as do certain SA ISP's, summarily cut him off.
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Yup, and the business package is $50 a month more. It's just so that they can have proper SLAs in place to support him since he is running servers on the line.
 
AfricanTech said:
Actually, from the article I read, they 'asked' him to upgrade to the business package indicating that the product he was using was designed for that purpose.

They did not, as do certain SA ISP's, summarily cut him off.
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http://arstechnica.com/information-...-the-limits-of-unlimited-data-77-tb-in-month/

But his bandwidth hogging eventually drew the attention of Verizon's engineers, who monitor usage for signs of unusual patterns in traffic. This practice is to watch for both abuse of the network (such as spam and denial of service attacks, for example) and for violations of the FiOS terms of service. Those terms exclude the use of FiOS for "high volume purposes" and forbid customers to "host any type of server. Violation of this section may result in bandwidth restrictions on your Service or suspension or termination of your Service."

Houkouonchi got a call from a Verizon representative this week. "Basically he said that my bandwidth usage was excessive (like 30,000 percent higher than their average customer)," houkouonchi said. "[He] wanted to know WTF I was doing. I told him I have a full rack and run servers, and then he said, 'Well, that's against our ToS.' And he said I would need to switch to the business service or I would be disconnected in July. It wasn't a super long call."
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It is more in detail within the ToS: http://my.verizon.com/central/vzc.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=vzc_help_policies&id=TOS
 
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