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We all love broadband and in this day and age lines are getting fatter, cheaper and caps are being increased. Belgian ISP Telenet decided to release information on the heaviest of downloaders using their network and one chap had 2,680GB of data shifted to his hard drives in a month. We can only assume he was downloading DVD collections of TV shows across bitorrent or newsgroups.
Others in the ‘shame list' managed to transfer 1.9 TB, 1.5TB and 1.3TB respectively which accounts for a lot of games and high definition movies.
While it could be interpretted that Telenet were trying to warn users about abusing their system they were just showing the public how much data they can deal with. The concept was to show customers how much better the high end ‘fair use' plans are when compared with the 50GB and 80GB capped plans.
As we all know ‘fair use' in relation to an broadband plan can often mean very limited amounts of data but if Telenet are allowing users to snag 2TB-3TB+ a month then it seems a good deal ! Now if only the UK had such a company.
KitGuru says: Have you downloaded 3TB in a month? Let us know your favourite ISP's
I download about 500MB a month, I thought that was bad !
2.7TB, is that even possible? what is there to download that takes so much room? 10 series of DVD TV shows? mental.
I have that ExpressNet and I find it more than enough… In fact I’m thinking to go less and to save some cash… I’ll need it for my next graphics card update… 😀
I’m with Telstra (Australia) $119/month 10mbit, 50gb download limit.
Australia needs an upgrade!
Holly cow! Honestly it is barely possible from my point of view (more than enough 2Mbit/s – no limits).
I can download few GBs. My biggest download in recent history was UT3 at nearly 9GB from GamersGate. I probably downloaded like 75% of that value over past 6-7 years.
He planned to suck internet dry or what?
I have 1 mbps connection with no limits and usually downloads 500-600 MB average daily.
There is an ISP in the UK that allow this….
Be Unlimited.
I’ve hit well over 2TB in a month before, and now have two 24meg lines bonded for 48meg down 🙂