Does SBC Yahoo DSL have a bandwidth limit?

[imported_whatever]

I just got DSL and want to know whether I need to worry about using large amounts of bandwidth. Do they penalize you in any way for using large amounts of bandwidth?

 

[KLin]

If you suddenly can't surf the internet, then you'll have your answer.

 

[intogamer]

when you get the letter😉

I think comcast doesn't like large bandwidth users

 

[BlueWeasel]

Two black military helicopters are in route to your house....

 

[imported_whatever]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Two black military helicopters are in route to your house....

most of it was legal or pretty much so (DLing America's Army, 2*HL2)

 

[neutralizer]

Doesn't matter. The 1.5 mbps is slow as hell. I can't get anything from usenet fast enough 🙁.

 

[Toasthead]

Ive never heard anything from them and I download about 10-15 GB a month...10 in a day might be excessive

 

[cyclohexane]

nah, I used to get about 5GB a day for a whole month, and it was fine.

 

[imported_whatever]

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
nah, I used to get about 5GB a day for a whole month, and it was fine.

on the $15 1.5mbit?

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: whatever

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
nah, I used to get about 5GB a day for a whole month, and it was fine.

on the $15 1.5mbit?

Not a problem, I can do that if usenet wouldn't hog all my bandwidth, making browsing unbearable. I d/l at 160 KB/s

5 GB = 5242880 KB which takes 32768 s or 9 hours.

 

[quakefiend420]

they didn't have a limit when i worked for them...that was a couple of years ago though...so things may have changed

 

[jiwq]

just tell em you were downloading linux isos from bittorrent all day

 

[AznAnarchy99]

i have the 1.5 mbit from SBC and i download at about 140kb - 150.. so slow so i upgraded to 3mbit. Should be ready thursday. anyone know what kind of speeds should i expect?

and 10 gigs on the first day... thats alot.. i download about 5 gigs in one day only when i just reformatted and im resinstalling steam games

 

[Koenigsegg]

I don't think DSL companies have a limit. Cable internet companies might though.

 

[faenix]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
i have the 1.5 mbit from SBC and i download at about 140kb - 150.. so slow so i upgraded to 3mbit. Should be ready thursday. anyone know what kind of speeds should i expect?

and 10 gigs on the first day... thats alot.. i download about 5 gigs in one day only when i just reformatted and im resinstalling steam games

You should expect 300kb. Not that hard to figure out.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: Koenigsegg
I don't think DSL companies have a limit. Cable internet companies might though.

my cox connection is supposed to be limited to something like 30gigs per month...i usually pull in at least 50 and they've never said anything

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: faenix

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
i have the 1.5 mbit from SBC and i download at about 140kb - 150.. so slow so i upgraded to 3mbit. Should be ready thursday. anyone know what kind of speeds should i expect?

and 10 gigs on the first day... thats alot.. i download about 5 gigs in one day only when i just reformatted and im resinstalling steam games

You should expect 300kb. Not that hard to figure out.

actually it should be about 375...

 

[duragezic]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99
i have the 1.5 mbit from SBC and i download at about 140kb - 150.. so slow so i upgraded to 3mbit. Should be ready thursday. anyone know what kind of speeds should i expect?

and 10 gigs on the first day... thats alot.. i download about 5 gigs in one day only when i just reformatted and im resinstalling steam games

Well, 3mbit is 2x as fast as 1.5mb. 1.5mbits/sec equates to a maximum of 183k/sec that you will see. You averaged about 85%, which is ok I'd say, considering to get maximum everything needs to be perfect sincfe there are a lot of factors. So 3mbps = 366k/sec, which is the same speed as my cable. The best constant rate I can get is 355k/sec from a news server. You should see 310-320k/s at the least by upgrading.


I've done 15-20gb in a day with a 3day newsgroup trial. Consider that, the rest of the month I download stuff (tho nowhere that rate), gaming, and 3-4 other people who all use their computers alot and use torrents. :Q Oh well, never been warned.


I think that with the popularity of home networks, and for college towns like here, that multiple people are using the connection so fixgure 3-5x the GB/day. My ISP used to try that crap about having to pay +$10/mo for "another line", but really it was for people who didn't know any better (routers were just coming to), but they gave that up long ago.