The Comcast Banhammer. Welcome to insanity.

[Mark_Hardware]

I don't have the fastest connection, but that's by choice. (Decided by my wallet)
This cap idea scares me. I am always online, and I am always streaming movies. Be it Netflix or Hulu. Often I will have Netflix on my PC and PS3 at the same time. Plus my son that plays an online RPG all day. So yeah, we are very heavy users. If my ISP started enforcing a limit, I might just cry.

[x88x]

TBH, I would be fine if I didn't do any uploading. I'm a pretty heavy downloader, but even then I probably don't go over 200GB in a normal month. ...of course, when a new table set comes out, that goes out the window, what with the last couple topping 300GB.

I would say that probably about 800-900GB of that 1,386GB was upload traffic, and about 500-600GB of that was probably the Church of Wifi WPA tableset...a lot of people seem to want those. That torrent always had upload traffic, and would use as much bandwidth as I would let it.

[dr.walrus]

TBH, I would be fine if I didn't do any uploading. I'm a pretty heavy downloader, but even then I probably don't go over 200GB in a normal month. ...of course, when a new table set comes out, that goes out the window, what with the last couple topping 300GB.

I would say that probably about 800-900GB of that 1,386GB was upload traffic, and about 500-600GB of that was probably the Church of Wifi WPA tableset...a lot of people seem to want those. That torrent always had upload traffic, and would use as much bandwidth as I would let it.

oh god, you're the guy i leech off aren't you?

[x88x]

Hahaha! I might just be, yeah. I'm a firm believer in seeding everything as much as possible. Case in point, I'm actually a bit ashamed that my D******d ratio is only at 3.12 ...I normally try to seed things until I hit 10.0 ...that gives me an idea...find a cheap seedbox provider that will also let me run a webserver on it, and set up a thing where people can upload their torrents to, and then rotate torrents out by ratio when my storage gets too low. That way I have no control over what is seeded (read: limit my legal liability), and people can get a high speed seed for their torrent. ..hmmm... At the very least, it would be an interesting experiment to see what kinds of content people would use such a service for... I might just do that...I saw a few seedbox services for <$10/mo...

[dr.walrus]

Hahaha! I might just be, yeah. I'm a firm believer in seeding everything as much as possible. Case in point, I'm actually a bit ashamed that my Demonoid ratio is only at 3.12 ...I normally try to seed things until I hit 10.0 ...that gives me an idea...find a cheap seedbox provider that will also let me run a webserver on it, and set up a thing where people can upload their torrents to, and then rotate torrents out by ratio when my storage gets too low. That way I have no control over what is seeded (read: limit my legal liability), and people can get a high speed seed for their torrent. ..hmmm... At the very least, it would be an interesting experiment to see what kinds of content people would use such a service for... I might just do that...I saw a few seedbox services for <$10/mo...

I'm a firm believer in 'it's all illegal anyway, nobody has the right to the moral high ground'

sorry

[x88x]

I'm a firm believer in 'it's all illegal anyway, nobody has the right to the moral high ground'

sorry

Hey, not all torrent activity is illegal... ..case in point, the stuff that really decimated Comcast's limit...

[Trace]

Haha! We all KNOW what it would be used for.

[x88x]

Haha! We all KNOW what it would be used for.

Can't be sure until it's done, right? And maybe I happen to set it up to send the contents of the torrent to my system before it deletes it.....you know, for backup, right?

[Trace]

Yes, of course. Wouldn't want to lose those IMPORTANT torrents.

[d_stilgar]

I think we're all getting too friendly with the torrent talk. There are pretty strict rules about not talking about torrents here, even if they are from a legal torrent site that only has open source content torrents.

I think mentioning our bandwidth use is usually enough for people to get the idea of what we are talking about, and if they ask you can say 'downloads' or 'a very big WoW update'.