Will your ISP get mad at you for excessive downloading?

[Jeraden]

I recently switched from Adelphia cable modem service, where I got ridiculously slow download speeds, to Verizon ADSL which gives me blazing fast download speeds. Now that I can finally download oodles of goodies, I'm tempted to queue up so many downloads that I could be downloading 24 hours a day. I remember Adelphia had something in their service agreement about excessive downloads (which quoted 2GB a month, but that was kind of ludicrous). Nothing like that exists in Verizon's agreement, but I'm still kinda paranoid about downloading too much stuff.

Anyone else a total leech (specifically with Verizon, but others would apply) and get any nasty-grams from their ISP about it? Anyone download like 30GB or more a month routinely with no problems?

 

[ScottyB]

You pay for unlimited, you get unlimited.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Mine used to.

They don't anymore.

- M4H

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: ScottyB
You pay for unlimited, you get unlimited.

I agree..they can kiss my ass if they give me any $hit about it...


Ausm

 

[Ns1]

they can, but i haven't...

and for about 5 months i probably dl'ed at least 30-40gb worth of crap a month (at LEAST)

 

[Kaervak]

"which quoted 2GB a month"

Adelphia says that, but in the two and a half years I've had their service it's never been enforced. The only thing they care about is if you're running servers.

 

[EyeMWing]

Verizon is actually pretty anal. I wouldn't put it past them. I used to use their dialup service and paid for 'unlimited' - but they hiked my rates to 150hrs for $20 and then $1/hr after that citing 'Excessive use'

Of course, this was when they were still BellAtlantic.

If they complain, bail.

 

[bandana163]

DSL = no limits.

 

[Conky]

Yeah, I'm a downloading freak. Did about 3 gigs yesterday and probably average 50gigs a month on my cable.

I've had outages and downtimes too so if they ever complain I am gonna go nuts on them. I agree with what the otherguy said... they sold it as unlimited and I'm holding them to that. I do tried and be considerate and set downloads at night rather than in high use times.

 

[royaldank]

Comcast has never said anything to me. I've done close to, if not more than 50 gigs before in a month.

 

[pulse8]

I've done ~60 or 70GB in a month and Comcast hasn't blinked an eye.

 

[goblue420]

i upload about 100-200 GB/month and dl about 30-40ish, im on U of M ResNet(.edu) they apparently dont care, if i get a warning then ill stop

 

[dabuddha]

I'm on verizon and I average around 3-350 gig download per month so I'm sure you're safe.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Just lay off the kiddie porn and you'll be ok.

 

[nodoubts2k]

They dont care...most of the time their ads are "download music 100x faster!" so you should be in the clear. I also have verizon they never told me a thing.

 

[K1052]

I was supposedly limited to 10GB per month by my wireless ISP.

I have broken that limit many times over and never heard anything.
I :heart: P2P

 

[illustri]

just make sure to share everything on kazaa with a username the same as your account name, Verizon was one of those forced to turn over (well bend over), to litigation, their customers to the riaa

seriously though they won't, by your own estimates you are small fry and its actually only the uploading that they might be concerned about if it causes slowdown of their network

my dsl company stopped offering their binary news server, so i had to get a third party provider
so in some sense they do care about bandwidth, but probably not enough for you to worry about

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Jeraden
I recently switched from Adelphia cable modem service, where I got ridiculously slow download speeds, to Verizon ADSL which gives me blazing fast download speeds. Now that I can finally download oodles of goodies, I'm tempted to queue up so many downloads that I could be downloading 24 hours a day. I remember Adelphia had something in their service agreement about excessive downloads (which quoted 2GB a month, but that was kind of ludicrous). Nothing like that exists in Verizon's agreement, but I'm still kinda paranoid about downloading too much stuff.

Anyone else a total leech (specifically with Verizon, but others would apply) and get any nasty-grams from their ISP about it? Anyone download like 30GB or more a month routinely with no problems?

cox limits me to 2gb/day or 30gb a month i think

i never used it all, got close when i first got broadband, i had 10 gigs downloaded in a week from linux isos, game demos, mods, utilities and the like

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: xSauronx

Originally posted by: Jeraden
I recently switched from Adelphia cable modem service, where I got ridiculously slow download speeds, to Verizon ADSL which gives me blazing fast download speeds. Now that I can finally download oodles of goodies, I'm tempted to queue up so many downloads that I could be downloading 24 hours a day. I remember Adelphia had something in their service agreement about excessive downloads (which quoted 2GB a month, but that was kind of ludicrous). Nothing like that exists in Verizon's agreement, but I'm still kinda paranoid about downloading too much stuff.

Anyone else a total leech (specifically with Verizon, but others would apply) and get any nasty-grams from their ISP about it? Anyone download like 30GB or more a month routinely with no problems?

cox limits me to 2gb/day or 30gb a month i think

i never used it all, got close when i first got broadband, i had 10 gigs downloaded in a week from linux isos, game demos, mods, utilities and the like

Crap. I have Cox in Phoenix and I have ~9GB queued for today alone (I estimate about 45gb/month)

 

[DurocShark]

I haven't had any problems, but the contract I got from Adelphia listed things like their ability to cancel my service if I download anything that they disagree with... (pr0n). which is actually kind of scary considering they pulled all the "Adult" stations off due to the president's religious beliefs.

 

[Jeraden]

Ok, I guess I'm in the clear then. The thing I like most about verizon is they have a fairly good set of binary usenet groups with at least 5 day retention in them. Its downloading bliss.

 

[XZeroII]

No problems here.

 

[brtspears2]

I know if I cut out my downloading of questionable files, I would be down to less than 7GB a month.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: royaldank
Comcast has never said anything to me. I've done close to, if not more than 50 gigs before in a month.

I just ordered Comcast, and asked the rep specifically if they cared, and she said no. We'll see....

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I haven't had any problems, but the contract I got from Adelphia listed things like their ability to cancel my service if I download anything that they disagree with... (pr0n). which is actually kind of scary considering they pulled all the "Adult" stations off due to the president's religious beliefs.

Where's your service area at that Adelphia pulled all the adult channels? I'm in Garfield Heights, Ohio and about six months ago Adelphia added adult channels here.