Age old question that I've been meaning to get an answer to. All these ISPs providing unlimited NBN plans. But how unlimited are they? A PB or two download per month?
There's no mention of what unlimited really means in any acceptable use policy.
Thoughts?
How much is your unlimited plan? I'm still on the $99p/m 1tb iiNet plan and it's just enough for me.
$99 with Leaptel 100/40.
I was with iiNet 100/40 for 1000GB it was $124 (I think).
I see that Exetel is pricing their 100/40 unlimited plan at just $90.
I'm a bit hesitant to leave iiNet because their service has been solid. How are you finding Leaptel?
@Ryanek: I was too. iiNet had been solid for me.
Leaptel have been great though. I got them to activate it on a second port on my ONT so I had no downtime. Once Leaptel was all up and running I cancelled iiNet.
The only difference between iiNet and Leaptel is iiNet uses EOW to authenticate and Leaptel PPPOE.
@Ryanek: I have been with iiNet for 15 years, on FTTH 100/40 $99.95 for the last 3 and just dropped to the 50/20 $79.99 plan unlimited, not seeing much difference. Use neat 1TB a month.
Yeah, the maximum possible down would be 33,480,000 MB for a 31 day month at 100% utilization full time, which is pretty unrealistic. Slamming it pretty hard would be 7-10 TB, and that will take some effort unless you're literally trying to tie up the connection with white noise or have even more data already queued up and waiting.
I don't think the more expensive ones would have a problem with 7-8TB in a month, more than that I'd probably try and shift it outside peak hours as much as possible or they'd have a decent reason to be shitty with you. They're paying based on how busy they get at the peak periods, or not in which case everyone gets slower in those periods. I think if you start to get up around 15-20 TB in a month you're likely costing them more than you're worth just in bandwidth alone, even on a $100 ish plan, at least if you're downloading at that rate during peak.
have a look at /r/datahoarder and various subreddits (or even whirlpool). Although reddit is generally US based, it's an indication of what they're looking for. Which, from what i've read, generally get you under the commercial use clause.
If you were to watch 1 45gb full bluray rip a day - that's 1.35TB/mo
I'm with Mate and so far have never been asked about it. I can get a full 100/40 so when I went a little crazy with UHD Linux ISOs I may have done 4TB in a month and never heard a thing. Often can do >1TB a month with no dramas
My family use 900GB ish on the last school holidays. Telstra 100/40
100 Mbps for one thirty-day month is 30.89TiB.
If you're in the top 1% of downloaders you might get an email or phone call. Or not. Depends on the company.
A renown poorly run provider was known for doing this yonks ago. An email warning and then heavy downloaders were given notice to transfer away as they intended to cancel their contract the following month.
ABB don't seem to care IMHO. I vary from 1-4TB a month of Linux ISOs.
Optus previously (not sure if they do now) sneakily capped speeds of heavy users during peak times.
@jnewau and @zeggie, what in the world are you downloading so many ISOs for?
Because I can.
WHat Zeggie says
Also a fair chunk of that is uploads- Plex sharing to friends and family. I dont torrent at all.
Is there anyone here who runs a server from home purely from NBN? (Not the brightest idea given the unreliability, but still)
No one?
I have fond memories of the 3GB cap that Telstra introduced yonks ago on their cable plans. Not because of the limit itself, but for the awesome pics that users created. They were usually Ziggy wearing a baseball cap with "3 GB" printed on it, or Ziggy at an AGM with a caption of "you'll take your 3 GB and like it!" Those were the days.
I run 100/40 unlimited on opticomm
Dedicated plex server.
Last month I downloaded over 1TB
Couple of months ago i downloaded 2.8TB
I am on FTTH via Opticomm not the NBN. I have just switched to an unlimited plan as 1000GB was not enough. I posed this question to the RSP before signing up. Their response:
We have a fair use policy but we are OK with heavy users and suggested that they wouldn't even blink at 3 to 4TB per month.
Month to date I have done 2.7TB. No issues, aside from the lack of local storage.
I don;t think you could do 1PB in a month on a 100/40 connection. Presuming you get the maximum from your line the max would be something like 30TB, I think (I could be wrong).