Verizon Fios customer finds what "unlimited internet" is.

[fredghostkyle]

Verizon

FiOS finds the max to a "unlimited internet connection" when he got a call saying he used 77TB in ONE MONNTH!!!!!!!! OH MY GOSH THATS CRAZY!!!!!

 

 

He was running this on his server's rack:

• A 1u server acting as router and VPN server with 4 1.5TB disks.
• A 1u testing server with two 1.5TB disks.
• A 2u server—formerly a "colo box"—with eight 750GB disks
• A 4u Solaris/ZFS backup machine with 24 1TB disks
• Another 4u server—houkouonchi's main server with 24 2TB disks and two 3u storage expansion units, each with 15 3TB disks.
• A 2u "Windows/miscellaneous" server with eight 1TB disks
• Two 2u uninterruptible power supplies
• Another 4u Solaris/ZFS server for backups with 24 1TB disks

a pic of the rack is attached.

 

Using the internet connection was a WiFi Router, many P2P connections, Web hosting and other things than need 50TB-77TB/mo

 

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/fios-customer-discovers-the-limits-of-unlimited-data-77-tb-in-month/

 

 

 

"150 megabit business class connections to a 300 megabit downstream/65 megabit upstream residential plan in January (though he said he was getting 150 megabits upstream). "I only switched to residential simply because business pricing wasn't in line with residential anymore," he said. (Verizon prices the residential service at more than $200 a month for 300/65; business service for dual 150 megabit lines runs $340 a month, and 300 megabit service costs $259 a month.)

Since the switch, he's used nearly 200TB in bandwidth—an average of 50TB a month. However, traffic most months is in the 30TB range. That sort of bandwidth would cost thousands of dollars per month in most colocation facilities—with the 77TB peak month jumping into the tens of thousands based on pricing plans I looked at from a variety of hosting vendors." (from Arstechnica.com, link above)

 

[kemical]

thats hilarious 50TB i dont think though am always downloading muvies, games and streaming ....I dont think I pass 1TB a month 

[ajoy39]

Merlin's beard that's a beautiful server rack

[mgsstar]

He's trying to get the most he could get out of his money. :)

[OPSJono]

Merlin's beard that's a beautiful server rack

I agree. That rack is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen! ;)

[mvitkun]

unless youtube started streaming uncompressed 4k video,I doubt that I could hit 50TB.

[ExDreamer]

Wow,i not even reach 100gb per month

[Nicktrance]

I only reach 100-150GB/month :D. Luckily, all offers from our local ISP are unlimited (the only exception is one so low end that it's not even listed on their website). I think it's about time download limits went the way of upload limits...

[Lukiose]

Wow.. It's like running an all-you-can eat buffet outlet and then a fat guy comes along and gobbles everything XD

[RainbowTylernol]

Props to that guy, hahahaha

[zeros]

I have reached a maximum of 1TB(1021GB to be more precise), only on uTorrent. If you have transfer cap enabled on uTorrent it will show you the usage history for max 30days back. I have it set to 1500GB :D. Right now my last 30days upload+download usage is 624GB. Anyways unless I set up a server it will never go over 1500GB. (I have 100/100Mbps/11$-month)

[Bluejay0]

50TB? That's a LOT of pr0n

[xBlizzDevious]

I use the internet A LOT for streaming, downloads etc. I probably use a couple of hundred GB a month. Maybe not even that, but still... With my current connection, I can't even use 2TB a month as that's way beyond it's physical limits. WTF!?

[MrPete1985]

unless youtube started streaming uncompressed 4k video,I doubt that I could hit 50TB.

I think that would just break the whole internet

[BrapYeah]

I have reached a maximum of 1TB(1021GB to be more precise), only on uTorrent. If you have transfer cap enabled on uTorrent it will show you the usage history for max 30days back. I have it set to 1500GB :D. Right now my last 30days upload+download usage is 624GB. Anyways unless I set up a server it will never go over 1500GB. (I have 100/100Mbps/11$-month)

WHERE DO YOU GET 100/100 FOR $11, I get 60/15 (Bell Fibre Op) as a standalone service and pay $98/month

[KieranThePCGuy]

77TB... wow! :O :D

[zeros]

WHERE DO YOU GET 100/100 FOR $11, I get 60/15 (Bell Fibre Op) as a standalone service and pay $98/month

Ah in a really nice country called Romania. ISP - RCS&RDS. Btw it's unlimited bandwidth but I wonder if they would give me a call if I could ever/somehow reach 50TB+.

[lhikary]

and here iam stuck with 1mb

fml

[mrthuvi]

77TB. Imagine how much porn that is.  :o

[Blade of Grass]

I wish I had a rack like that ;)

 

Anyways, that's awesome, 77TB of data in a month, wow.

Then again Google goes through about 24 Petabytes of data a day in 2009.

[Night]

We have 250GB between me and ONE of my flatmates...the other one doesnt really use the net...But we can kill about 200GB if we are trying to download stuff...which is most of the time.

A month is too short for 50TB's of usage. Maybe if it was 1Gbs up and down...I could upload videos??? But I dont do that anyway.....sooooo, Nope.

[fredghostkyle]

i dont use 10GB/mo and i do WebHosting and Game servers. :P i pay the same amount he dues. 

[fredghostkyle]

thats hilarious 50TB i dont think though am always downloading muvies, games and streaming ....I dont think I pass 1TB a month 

i might use 50TB in my life

 

He's trying to get the most he could get out of his money. :)

he did, he has to pay $100 more now tho.

 

unless youtube started streaming uncompressed 4k video,I doubt that I could hit 50TB.

i dont think you could watch that much YT at 4K for 50TB

 

Wow.. It's like running an all-you-can eat buffet outlet and then a fat guy comes along and gobbles everything XD

it is

 

50TB? That's a LOT of pr0n

yes it is

 

77TB... wow! :o :D

I KNOW!

[Eric1024]

I dunno, between renting movies, watching youtube videos, downloading games, and the like, I probably use close to 1TB a month but my ISP doesn't have a bandwidth cap so I've never bothered to look nor do I have any idea how... plus it's spread out across 3 computers.

 

But 77TB in one month... good god...

[xBlizzDevious]

I'm just trying to think of how it would be possible t use 50TB a month or 77TB for that matter!

 

Let's say I download 10GB a day. That's A LOT... In a month, that'd be 300GB. Nope.

Ok, let's say we're downloading the equivalent of the entirety of Battlefield 3 every day... That's 38GB/day, so 1.14TB/month....

 

Uhm... WTF is this guy doing!?!? Let's say that you're some madman who streams everything from their house to everything else. That'd be, let's say 100GB down and 100GB up per day. So 200GB/day = 6TB/month.

 

I give up on trying to think how you can use 50TB+ a month. Just... No.

 

Note: For 200GB data usage per day, you'd need 20Mbps total bandwidth minimum. Jeez. I barely get a quarter of that!