Anyone actually get bitched at from Comcrap about blowing their data cap?
I ask this because after uploading my music library to Google music and doing some torrenting here lately, I would be pushing ~150 GB of data transfer and I wanted to see where I was at in my bill cycle so I could make sure to keep usage reasonable until it flipped over to the next month.
However, when I checked my usage, it showed in the past three months, the least I had used was 255 GB and somehow in October I pushed damn near a terabyte of data through the WAN. Yet I've never received a letter or phone call or email telling me to stop doing what I was doing OR ELSE.
To be completely honest, I'm more than a bit skeptical that these figures are accurate. First off, it's me, by my damn self, it's not like I live with a bunch of people. Second, while I do have a LOT of data-capable devices (media PC, notebook, tablet, smart phone (though it is usually connected to cellular data), XBOX 360 and PS3) I usually don't have a ton of time to do fun shit on them. I use the notebook and tablet a ton for school and some torrenting, the PS3 is essentially a glorified Blu Ray player, the media PC is networked but it rarely gets used for anything other than playing movies or music locally, and the 360 does do a fair amount of Netflix and gaming but seriously, that much? I dunno about all that.
The network is definitely secure, I suppose I could go to MAC address filtering to make completely sure but my password is complex enough that I doubt the people who live in the same building can guess it so I don't think anyone's leaching.
So am I just lucky to be on an uncongested node where Comcast doesn't give a fuck? Are my internets perhaps not a series of tubes but instead are INDEED a big truck that you can just dump something on? Am I just lucky? Has anyone else had a similar experience? I know this won't be anything more than anecdotal evidence but there's not a chance in hell I'm about to call up Comcast and be the nail that sticks out.
Posted Dec 29, 2011, 7:42 AM UTC