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Verizon EVDO bans p2p, file sharing--limited to 5gb

Man, that blows. Legitimate P2P (seeding Linux torrents, Openoffice, whatever) downloading game patches, watching MLB.tv.... that's all stuff that's gonna get you over the 5 GB hump pretty quickly.

What's going to happen is someone is going to sue to make Verizon stop calling it an "unlimited" plan, Verizon will yank it, and introduce some new "real" unlimited plan that costs like 100 bucks a month, and all the other major ISPs are going to do the same. Dammit.
 
This isn't exactly news. Many people have had their EVDO access canceled after using BitTorrent or other P2P applications. Verizon gets most of their EVDO profits from corporate clients so I guess they don't give a rat's ass about anyone else.
 
You should change or edit your post to say this is for their EVDO service and not for their normal broadband service such as FIOS. If it was for FIOS then this would be huge news and I think it would certainly drive other people to the competition that had no limits.
 
:shocked:

Almost had a heart attack! WHEW!

*Group hugs $29 DSL connection, news.verizon.net, and NewsBin* 😀
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
You should change or edit your post to say this is for their EVDO service and not for their normal broadband service such as FIOS. If it was for FIOS then this would be huge news and I think it would certainly drive other people to the competition that had no limits.
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Thanks for the heads up 🙂
 
I've never hit 5GB per month, I have the Cingular equivalent HSPDA 3G. But the plan I have doesn't allow client terminated connections so no P2P anyways.

I don't see why most people would care, its a business tool. The TOS prohibits using these as a primary connection in a desktop etc.
 
uhh, this is for EVDO service, not broadband. The post doesn't mention this.

EVDO = cell phones and treos. EVDO also equals WAN on the laptops, but up until last year, you were only going at 38.4kbps on EDGE so I can sort of, if I squint, see their point.
 
Originally posted by: Xyclone
Umm... I doubt you will download 5GB worth on your cell phone... :laugh:
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but you could if you hooked it up to your laptop 🙂 it dl's around 70k/sec on the sprint EVDO.
 
Originally posted by: Xyclone
Umm... I doubt you will download 5GB worth on your cell phone... :laugh:
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You could if you were using it tethered. This also applies to the Aircard services, as well.

Edit: P2P and streaming type services are against VZW's TOS for EVDO HS anyway. It's a QoS issue.

Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
This is why when you discard customer service, Sprint > Verizon in every other regard.
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Sprint doesn't > Verizon in anything except their data services. And that's only because Sprint's churn is the highest the business.... so they can afford to let more people saturate their data network!
 
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