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Originally posted by: indamixx99
Does Verizon DSL have a limit?
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You can usually find out by reading their policy. From what I could see, there is no limit. My parents have Verizon DSL and I could leave their computer on 24/7 and have it download/upload continuously and it won't exceed any bandwidth limit because it's so darn slow. I didn't upgrade them to FiOS because they just don't download enough for it to be worthwhile.
 
Hmm, I download about 20-30gigs a month, no problem here! I suppose that is one good thing about comcast...
 
I routinely download between 250-400GB per month. Not a single warning from Bell Sympatico for the past 7 or so years. This is all from Usenet. But yet i have had a friend receive a warning from Sympatico for downloading a movie from BT though.
 
I have 5 computers hooked up to my ISP, between my dl, the oldest, and the wife we down load a crap load of stuff like videos, trailers, and bunch of game demos between my son and I and I have never had my ISP here or back up in IN ever threaten to cut us off.
 
Anybody know what Insight's limit is? If they have one it'll be fairly easy to hit with this 10/1 connection.
 
I use Cox and I have a 40gb download and 10gb upload limit. I've passed them before and my speed gets cut WAY down. I can't even play games online without lagging when that happens.
 
Originally posted by: UFOfreak
No but I still download 1.9 TB a month. I only get HDTV content.
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That's about what I did back when I was into the scene. I've since re-ordered my priorities.
 
Originally posted by: eelw
I routinely download between 250-400GB per month. Not a single warning from Bell Sympatico for the past 7 or so years. This is all from Usenet. But yet i have had a friend receive a warning from Sympatico for downloading a movie from BT though.
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A friend of mine had this happen as well. Me too I guess. They completely shut off your internet and when you call they tell you that you have to delete said files. I use PeerGuardian now and have never had a problem since.
 
No known limit whith Adelphia for me. Only thing they ever cared about is people running servers on their connection. I'll probably end up getting some sort of limit since we're being transitioned to Time Warner. Not that it matters, I probably only do around 30GB a month, if that.
 
I've gotten warnings already. The best part: nowhere on their site or in their terms of service does it say what the limit is. Mine allows 50GB/month downstream, and I think something around 10-15GB up.
 
Back in the day, buddy of mine was cut of couple times in the same year. Downloaded a whole lot of movies/porn/games
 
When I actually had a PC (lawl) I estimate I did about 200GB a month. Never got anything from comcast. Now I have cox and I don't think I do 5 GB a month.
 
I don't think comcast cares. They keep upgrading my connection, I'm up to 16mbps down and it is pretty much for sure that most people don't download as much as I do. I like my anime and that requires way too much downloading 😀
 
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