Discussion
toofy: it should be illegal to insinuate unlimited when it isn’t unlimited.that said, it’s become so normalized by now for companies to basically lie what they’re giving to you, so ultimately there isn’t a whole lot you can do.my grandpa used to always say “i fought the law and the law won” that should be updated to, “i fought misleading/lying corp and the corp won.”
TurdF3rguson: They should still be allowed to disconnect you or cap it if you abuse it. Businesses shouldn't be forced to put up with customers that are costing them money by being unreasonable.
_--__--__: I assumed from the title this would be about using overlapping 2.4ghz wifi channels, which I would probably support ISPs shaming users for doing.
Rekindle8090: I was with you at the 14tb a month not being much until I reread the post and noticed uploading 10tb a month. That's fucking stupid. ISPs have ALWAYS cared more about upload.
pabs3: Original question from before it was edited:https://web.archive.org/web/20260415000855/https://news.ycom...
xboxnolifes: The "unreasonableness" of using what you pay for.
brailsafe: [delayed]
toss1: So, you are saying it is unreasonable to take a company at its word.You are saying it is unreasonable to understand the words a company uses as having the same meaning as understood by every other speaker, writer, listener, and reader.And you are saying it is reasonable for a company to lie, to make claims that are the opposite of the words it uses.Yes, the company's network resources are finite, and it is reasonable to put in limits on abuse. That does not (and should not) create a license to abuse the language. There are many other words a company could HONESTLY use to describe its biggest plan that do not mean infinite when they mean finite. Any competent marketer and lawyer can find a thesaurus.(and the same applies to "Full Self Driving", an obvious lie in it's second decade.)
TurdF3rguson: It's still unlimited if they cap you, it's just slow.
pmarreck: Super unprofessional, they’re not doing their own traffic management job
seattle_spring: Thanks for this. So glad HN limits ninja edits after a certain period of time. So frustrating when I'm hunting for an answer on Reddit, and stumbling on a thread with a bunch of "thanks, that solved it" replies to a [deleted] post.
callamdelaney: HN does a lot of things that it doesn't really tell the user it's doing, like this which has annoyed me in the past.
rayiner: [delayed]
TurdF3rguson: "Unlimited" is just the plan name / description. It doesn't mean you can defy physics. You cannot have more Olive Garden breadsticks than there are atoms in the universe.
TMWNN: Actual original post: <https://reddit.com/r/datahoarder/comments/1sljeh6/my_isp_is_...>
johnsmith1840: What's the cost difference of doing this via S3?I don't understand whag thr archive is doing either, why does that mean 14TB upload a month?You could go with a cloud provider that has low to no egress or ingress charges??
adgjlsfhk1: Sure, but if you advertise unlimited data and a data rate of 100mbps you should be obligated to deliver 100mbps for as long as the user continues to pay for service.
pabs3: That one got deleted too.
tbrownaw: > Anyone on HN knows that network pipes are inherently shared, somewhere.So? The end users aren't the ones with the power to enforce QoS policies on that contended link.
TurdF3rguson: Except that I guarantee there's some fine print in the terms that says otherwise. Also, cancelling his service means he's not continuing to pay for service.
pnw_throwaway: Cable internet sucks, but you’re being ridiculous. Get a seedbox if you’re torrenting that much my dude.I believe the answers on reddit said about the same, why drag this out further?And call the cops if the tech was trespassing.
_z369: It's not trespassing, this individual would have had to show an ID and be on an access list to get in to my community. He either was Jason Bourne or an actual Mediacom rep. He knew my address specifically was using a ton of bandwidth and he was confirmed in my neighbors home earlier.I'm still trying to get to the bottom of why a rep would come to my house and disconnected my internet after talking to a 15 year old that was home alone. I called Mediacom and they said speaking to minors is against their policy and doing any sort of maintenance without the account holder present is against their policy.
pnw_throwaway: Isn’t the answer fairly simple?They were going to disconnect it either way, and the 15-year-old was the one that answered the door.
_z369: So why is my account still active? Why not permanently suspend my account or throttle me instead of coming to my house and disconnecting the internet and then when I call Mediacom they say my account is in good standing and tell me to reconnect it? None of this is strange to you?Why would he ask a 15 year old what their parent does for a living or what he uses the internet for when policy says not to interact with minors?
dd8601fn: I would guess it's because the tech decided there's something fuck-y going on on your home network. Because there is.He doesn't know what, exactly... he just knows that it's wildly abnormal and jeopardizing local service, so he put a tourniquet on it. He tried to ask but nobody at the house could tell him.There probably should have been service notes for the CSRs to see, but you'll probably get a call to figure out what's going on.
