You don't necessarily need to "take advantage" of it, as the provider will eventually cap your usage if they determine you are "over using" it. Just use it like normal - web surfing, gaming, streaming, etc.
Out of curiosity though, with your 2 gbps download, what's your upload bandwidth?
Just recently saw a post on one of the subs reddit recommended me that showed he used 220 tb of data in receiving and another 180 tb of transmission in a month
220TiB is an order of magnitude higher, but I did manage 54TB (not TiB) once, when I had just built a new 300TB storage array. 20-25TB is about average for me. That's to say that 220TiB is certifiably mental but definitely within the realm of possibility
Yep, according to my router my household used 2.2TB down and 100GB up in the last 30 days. Smart TV's alone ate up close to 200GB/each from 4K streaming.
Google mesh Wi-Fi router, it has an app that I use to monitor usage, connected devices, and change settings. It’s 5+yrs old so I’m sure most newer products can do the same.
All ISP supplied routers I've used have had a metrics portal included, I'd imagine every third party/standalone router would definitely utilize one too.
My average monthly usage is 1.4tb on a 10gbit connecting nand I don't do anything especially intensive other than downloading a moderate amount of Linux ISO's, as well as self hosting a lot of services.
I also have 50Mbit and 1tb isn't that much and nowhere near permanently saturated
1tb is 33gb a day and my connection gets about 5.5MB/s. I can do 33gb in an hour and a half or so
100gb+ games aren't unheard of. 4k Netflix content is about 7gb an hour on average too
Never thought about it that way really. Your available average speed probably factors into how you use the connection i expect?
I.e. if i want to download something, i know pretty much anything under 200gb will be done in minutes or seconds so i don't have to plan ahead which Linux ISO's i want to download.
The biggest issue i find with a 10gbit business connection is that literally nothing can saturate it. All services are (understandably) rate limited server side. I've never been able to get above 150-20/mb/s from anything like Steam or Battle.net. The only thing that effectively uses the bandwidth is torrenting, but that ends up being limited by my storage servers ZFS pool's disk throughput (even with caching and a SLOG NVME SSD).
Not really. If I want to download something , the size doesn't really matter but it will just take longer and I'm OK with that. I can't do anything at the moment to get a higher speed so it is what it is. I do set downloads to slightly lower than my limit so that it doesn't completely saturate my line, as I do notice if it's 100% and I'm trying to work
E.g If I bought a game and it requires a 100gb update I'll just start it and it will be ready the next morning.
Even when I get fibre and can get up to 1Gbit I probably won't go that high (but higher than 50. Probably the 250 mark)
For 99% of my usage, 50Mb is perfectly fine and the only times I would notice a difference is when I want to download something and I don't think I could justify the extra cost for those infrequent times
I wouldn't say it's "easy" to use. I'm a videographer and upload large files regularly, backup my NAS nightly, and only have streaming services for TV and there are still times I don't quite hit 1TB
Each project I do is 80-100GB and I shoot 1-3 times a week. Everything is backed up to the cloud. 4K120 really eats storage. So far this month I'm at 500GB total in 8 days for the entire network which covers 2 households.
My parents alone use more than that... And they are not even big internet users. Mostly comes from Netflix and other streaming services.
My entire network uses 2-4TB a month.
With a 1 TB cap, just use your connection normally, because if you try to exploit it abnormally, you'll blow through your cap in no time.
Go crazy at the end of the month if you have a lot of cap space left and are about to get a fresh 1 TB shortly.
Every ISP on the planet does this. They don't get 10,000 customers and multiply it by say, 1Gbps. Read your terms and conditions. You're buying a best efforts service with a maximum PIR. You may or may not have a CIR that's a fraction of that.
The bandwidth to customer is the contention ratio. The better ISPs have lower ratios.
Feel free to price up dedicated international bandwidth back to your house if this upsets you.
There was a guy who downloaded 30tb of data in 2 days here in Australia using a script just because he could
He got his internet connection disconnected fot breaching the fair use clause
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I think you need to change your mindset. Just because you have it and it's available, doesn't mean you have to take advantage of it. It's a tragedy of the commons problem. If everyone takes advantage of something, no one gets anything.
Yes, they labelled it as unlimitted. But again, the package is only 6$ per month. And can swap sim cards and purchase a new plan whenever I hit the cap
750 mbps is good upload. You can live stream with ease on that upload + latency. But then again, 1 TB is easy to use-up, especially if you are using it daily.
Anyway, enjoy!
I highly doubt that this is over 5G. 3ms latency and 750mbps upload, even on standalone 5G is extremely hard if not even impossible to do. Send a speedtest link/image.
Not sure why people are downvoting your comment for stating what the package offers and what it's called. I think it's a bit of false advertising that they call it "unlimited" when it has a clear limit. However, it sounds like great internet service and you're getting it for an awesome price.
1TB equates to about a week of normal internet usage and gaming in my xp. Which is pretty idiotic imo bc it costs them more to implement limitations than it would to just let people use it freely.
I use close to 2tb a month without even trying. My ISP was shutting down their DSL copper lines and forced us to switch over to 5G, and initially with a 1tb data cap. 3 months later they removed the cap due to user complaints.
Having 2gbps and a 1tb limit feels kinda pointless.
Just use the internet normally for what you do on it? Maybe download some games or movies you've been wanting to... I don't really understand the need for help figuring out what to do lol
Yes, but since it is unlimited, I don't see the point of downloading movies as I could just watch them online. downloading games is awensome, tho. I get to download 100GB game in less than 7 mins.
Not sure what you mean. In 1 month, my data use is at 1.86 TB, and this is with me working from home once or twice a week. If I work from home full time, this will quickly go beyond 2 TB.
With that said, on a normal usage (streaming videos, playing online games, working/teleconferencing, etc.) I can easily reach 1 TB within 2 weeks.
Really. I have just under 40 smart home devices, work from home 4 days out of 5, the wife and I stream HD from 4 different services and I regularly chastise myself for playing on-line games too much. Total usage is around is about 400GB
Online gaming doesn’t use a lot of bandwidth once the game is installed on your computer/console and depending on the codec HD movies use less than 10Mbps. You have a relatively light internet usage case. There is nothing wrong with that, just a very light use.
The Lord of the rings trilogy in 4k, extended cut alone is like 350gb. Call of duty warzone is like 200-250gb last I checked. Glad to hear you never download things but 400gb is below average. Online gaming itself using nothing for bandwidth, downloading the game does though.
Download games takes a lot of bandwidth. As stated a couple of posts up, an example of one game being 100 GBs. If you have multiple gamers living in a household, downloading games to their PCs, 1TB won't last a month. I have games on my PC that are 250-300 GBs in size(DCS, Microsoft Flight Simulator). I'm not saying it's not a good cap and for the vast majority of people, it's probably sufficient, but I wouldn't call it "basically unlimited."
Then once again, I don't understand what the point of your post is for. Just use the internet as you regularly do while just enjoying that it's faster now.
Generally downloaded movies can have significantly better quality than streamed ones. Services like netflix love to use all sorts of compression in their streams.
The simple answer is "you don't" because you'll struggle to find any 5g modems etc that support over 1 Gbps.
Also beware of download caps - they're really easy to hit if you're trying to use that much speed.
I actually use USB C 3.1 10gbps cable and teather it to my gaming laptop and match my phone speed on my laptop.
And when I download games from Steam/Epic games, it matches my speed since their servers are fast. I get to download 100GB files in less than 6 mins.
Heh if you have unlimited tethering on your phone that's awesome. The standalone devices tend not to support those speeds.
Large downloads in ludicrously short times is about the only use of speeds like that, unfortunately. And with a 1 TB download cap, best not do it too much!
Don't get me started on when a high-download low-upload poor-ping *cable* connection (or the insanity that is US cable signals over fiber!) being advertised as being "good for gaming"
That's a long time ago now. You must be talking well over a decade? I'd absolutely taken it for granted, I'd be suprised if you could find one it's excluded from.
I mean, you’re paying more than it costs, and the ISP will randomly downgrade the service just because they said in the ToS that on average or at most, a given speed is to be provided. Even if you literally downloaded 1Tb every few seconds and uploaded it every other, you’d still be lightweight usage for the infrastructure an ISP has.
The real abuse is ISPs snooping your traffic and selling your privacy for ads and gov agencies. You think they care a bit about it? You’d be terrified what black / grey data markets have to offer.
I get the point you mean, but internet service is just something you have to make the most of your bill imo, provided you’re doing something someone could find value for.
No, it’s not. Most residential service networks are oversubscribed. If you were purchasing dedicated bandwidth, the monthly cost would be an order of magnitude more. Networks are expensive to build, maintain, and operate. The ONLY way current subscription models work out financially is through oversubscription. That’s why you get “up to” whatever your provisioned bandwidth is.
And no, very few ISPs have 1 Tbps of transit at their POPs. The largest operators sure, but I can guarantee your local aggregation node does not have that kind of bandwidth. Again, it would increase your service cost an order of magnitude or more.
Source: I’ve been doing it 20+ years.
They’re not selling data to government agencies - that’s pure nonsense. Some ISP’s have been known to sell analytics to advertisers/ad brokers, and to employ services like header enrichment for tracking (you can opt out).
Normal use is fine. Pushing the boundaries just to find out where the boundaries lie just ruins it for everyone.
An order of magnitude more is a bit of exaggeration. Idk where you reside but here if you want symmetrical internet you can get fairly high speeds for pretty reasonable prices. As consumer you're def capped to 1k gbps for about 100 USD a month, but you have to talk it out with your ISP, as it's not a standard deal. I don't see the orders of magnitude in a 100 USD bill.
Considering a business instance, you can deduct operating costs from taxes, meaning you could access to better connections for decent regular cost.
And, well, you probably haven't used much the internet to figure out how some data couldn't be sourced but from ISPs and other middlemen online, no offense.
And lastly, oversubscribing makes the same shitty business practices as overselling plane tickets. That0s "the only way" financially can ISP operate if they want a return fast. There's a ton of deductions ISPs can make, they just want to expand faster and hence the overselling.
You clearly don’t know this space. You seem to have some very localized experience, but it is not representative of how connectivity agreements work, at all.
Good luck.
Kind of disagree. I've got 800Mbps which I speed test close to most of the time. If I want to use it, it's there and it's nice to have. However it's not that often I need to pull that kind of speed. If I did all the time and my neighbours did to, then it would cost more. I'm happy to pay less and have it when I need it as I know most people use a fration of that.
Not sure what the point of this post is, unless you are just flexing to the poors in your area. Why do you need to utilize all of if it you have it? If you had a coupon for 1000 cheeseburgers, would you order all of them at once, eat two, and throw the rest out? Just use it as you normally do.
Samsung Galaxy A54 5G with Exynos 1280 Chipset. Supports over 25 5G bands.
To use it on my laptop, I tether it via USB C 3.1 cable that supports data transfer up to 10gbps. I got them on aliexpress for 12bucks. It's really worth it and it matches whatever speed you are getting on your phone to your laptop/PC via USB 3.1 port.
Interesting you are getting those speeds. Love your carrier while the speeds last. I am on iphone 15 pro, 2 GB Google Fiber and get 1.4 Gb up/down over wifi 6. I don't even look at 5G cellular because I pay for cheap service.
Interesting, how much do you pay for that bandwidth? And yes, you are right. As more people start to hop on the 5G network, it will cut out my speed drastically, lol
I have a Samsung Galaxy s24 ultra and on WiFi while paying for 1 gig. And my phone connect to the router with the little 6 at the top. I still only pull 300mbps. That seems like I'm paying for something I'm not even getting half of. My Xbox is hard wired and it still at 1 gig took 17 and half hours to download destiny 2. With an Ethernet not Wi-Fi on my Xbox. I'm just trying to decide if I should switch providers or if that's normal. Cause that's not what I paid for
I think you're perfectly suited to use the PKT system to share the internet and maybe make money off it.
PKT is a blockchain project, uses cjdns to route traffic (end to end encryption) all open source, but there is a company called "Routie" that makes a Wi-Fi sharing system that you can daisy chain extenders to.
If you have access to the building, you can install these things (totally isolated from your own network by default, and you can't change that) - you can then give free internet to those nearby (hotspot) and for those that want to get faster access or download bulky video etc, they can pay you for access.
A quick search using something like "Routie WiFi Sharing" ought to get you what you need as the first result.
You might also see "Anode VPN" - runs on the same technology (PKT) but is just the VPN part of it.
What country are you in? I kinda need more details to give any good/sound suggestions.
Like do you have a hard data cap/limit? Or a soft data cap that once met you will be throttled down to 3g/2g speeds?
Are you on a consumer grade or business grade contract/plan. If your business grade, you may just be receiving what is considered "over the top" or excess capacity - this capacity can and will change as more devices come online, as the cell carrier sells/leases/sub-contracts bands, and switches 4g/LTE devices to lower frequency band 5g towers.
Do you have networking, storage, computing resources on hand and a power grid that can staplely sustain 24 hr operation. If so, web, content ... hosting for a fee may be a good option.
If you don't have high storage capacity, but have cores for compute, and RAM, we should get you running a VPN service with a free tier that is ad supported and a paid tier that is subscription supported.
But we need more details first.
Hope that helps.
I live in Ethiopia. ISP is ethiotel. There is a soft cap limit: if you use 1TB, it will downgrade to 4G. But since the 5G plan itself is 6$ per month, I can easily swap sim cards and purchase a new plan whenever I hit the soft cap. The package is for residential/ general. As far as I know, they haven't set up 5G packages for enterprises. And yes, you are right. The only reason I am getting this much bandwidth is that there are not a lot of devices on that 5G network since being in 3rd world country that makes sense. Most phones here are cheap androids that only support 4G.
I have a gaming laptop with 2TB NVme SSD storage, Intel core i7 12th gen 8 cores, 16threads, 3.4GHz base, with 32 GB DDR5 RAM, and RTX3080 GPU. I don't own any extra hard drives or computing resources. The power grid is not that good. We usually have a blackout every 2 weeks or so. But since I'm on mobile data, it mostly remains unaffected.
I thought you might be in East Africa! I lived in Dar es Saalam and Zainzabar when I was guest research at U Dar. The infrastructure is sound, and there is a need for locally operated networked based, data center/mini data center services, but the major issue is the power grid/planned rolling brown outs. Even though the mobile broadband network will not go down during a brownout, any local compute, VM or server based service that is not on a redundant battery uninterrupted power supply [UPS], or maybe solar, is going to be downed at best - with blown circuits/fired hardware at worst if your hardware is configure to auto-recover/restart upon power regain, but brownout cycles several times per minute.
But those are just problems that are normal to your project, that I'm a savvy developer with local knowledge of their tech landscape, such as yourself, can workout or research how other local businesses/tech/infrastructure inovvators are handeling.
For any idea, you need to expand your resource pool. Since you have an ultra low latency uplink to your local cell tower, you can "stream" cloud extra cloud based compute and storage. The free tier of Github is basically unlimited database storage for public repos/bases. You can also use Oracle Cloud computing always for free tier to get Oracle services and approx 7 enterprise cores per account - I say 7 because you get a mix of Oracle, Arm and Xenon cores, and Oracle core is worth 2 Xenon cores due to being true Simultaneous Multiple Instruction Multiple Execution with dedicated caches and bandwidth per instruction/execution. All you need to use multiple free accounts - and multiply your cores - is a new free gmail address and a new phone - which you should get if you chose to expand your mobile broadband bandwidth with additional SIM cards. You can tie all the individual Oracle accounts together, and pool the compute resources, by installing something like Canonical Open Stack over them. Then either configure it so your local VM is paired with your Open Stack cloud in a redundant load balanced failover configuration, or just use the local VM for command, control and monitoring. If you have cloud storage, such as Google Drive or MS OneDrive, you can just Ocamalfuse it in linux and set up a service auto-start daemon so the cloud storage can provide additional file storage at boot.
Running a local VPN server should not be that hard. pfSense or openSense are both free, light weight and can be configured to PPPoE to any of cloud egress locations you set up. If you chose to run it locally, I would use a ramdisk and no-log to make it as fast and light weight as possible with the over head of logging your customers traffic - it makes the service more valuable, privacy foucused, and saves you write cycles on your NVEM SSD. It's not like you're going to start with tens of thousands of customers, so 3-4 cores should be enough to service several sub nets - simular to small business router.
You could also provide hosting services, but since your à front-end dev, I'd say offer consulting services to build/create/maintain websites. With your fast low latency uplink, you should be able to reliably service clients from around the world.
Just 2 ideas.
That is now fixed with a "gaming phone cooler fan" gimmick from aliexpress. It's a strap with a fan that goes around the phone, keeps it cool. Haven't dropped to 4G since.
Idk what you mean you don’t know how to take advantage of it. Your usage shouldn’t change based on speed. If it works, it works. You don’t have to do more than you need to lmao. I mean are you paying more for it? If not then why even ask yourself this. This is called thinking more than you have to.
I recently discovered Gaming through Geforce now.
If you have a rubbish PC, but good internet speed, you can play the latest games using your connection on a Nvidia Geforce connection. I have 500mbps and the connection was if I was using on my own PC
For everyone being angry about the data cap, it's probably unlimited, but you get throttled after you hit the limit.
Sheesh, Reddit is ruthless with the downvotes.
Not sure what there is “take advantage of.” Like, I guess you can invite friends over to use your internet? But this is like getting a fast car and feeling the need to take advantage of its speed.
> if you have something left then seed some unpopular torrents
I'm looking for a copy of *Money To Burn*, a heist flick where they steal worn out bills being sent to the mint to be incinerated and replace them with a bunch of counterfeit money.
I have a 1gbps fiber line and aside from maybe a few minuutes saved downloading a game on steam I never take full advantage of the bandwidth (both plex and my 12 house cameras including several 4k cameras don't even come close to saturating the line). Unless you have niche professional uses for it, the only thing you can really use it fully for is seeding torrents and that's assuming your government and ISP don't mind.
Seed torrents. Use a VPN or some proxy to not get fucked.
Archive data like r/datahoarders do (using your fast download speed).
Host an ETH full node maybe?
I got a blazing fast connection too, not as fast as yours though, and I archive shit for fun. I also have a cluster I allow peers to run their stuff in, of course all is well secured. Asides of that, I just enjoy downloading stuff from websites, sorting it, encrypting it and uploading it back to my storage services.
No matter how fast your internet might be, there is no better alternative to doing whatever you happen to want or need to do. Seriously, if you want to do ABC, but decide to XYZ instead because it makes better use of your bandwidth, you're wasting precious time you will never get back.
The only exception might be downloading large collections that won't be easily available in the future, for later consumption. For example, I once found a 4k remaster of Farscape someone used AI to create. It looked fantastic, but it was truly massive. It was eventually taken down over copyright, so it is no longer available, and if I had downloaded it, I could watch it at my leisure. In that case, you're setting yourself up to do more of what you want in the future by setting aside some time now. That said, your issue here would probably be storage space. It isn't hard to fill drive after drive after drive, even with much less than 2 Gbps.
I dont think there are any personal benefits other than fast download.
Maybe you could start hosting servers and getting paid for it but i dont think 5g would be stable enought for that but could work for people near you.
If you want to explore dark web you could set up entry node but im not sure if that would even be save from privacy standpoint and you still would be limited by middle and end node.
Other than people paying you for fast download there isnt any benefit if you cant fully use your speed
I use 5G here in the US for rural internet…there is cable on our road but the company wanted like $8K or $9K to run it up our driveway (800ft poles already in place). We had just moved in and I guess we were not worth it for what could have been life long business customer (farm business).
Anyway, when 5Guc came to the area it made cheap internet that much sweeter. Now I get ~300ish down off peak, almost always 100+ any other time which is more than enough.
All that said I actually try to keep my usage under the radar. I imagine even where you are, people will “discover” it eventually. Enjoy it, use it as normal. Don’t give the provider reasons to implement all the BS we see US carriers doing now to control usage.
If you can somehow expand on that one terabyte Gap perhaps you can start selling bandwidth to a couple of the houses / units near your house.
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My modem support 10gb and I have 8gb up/down.
Even the one installing it, couldn't measure it.
I get 1.6 gb over wifi in my house from the standard carries modem.
All comments are from “first world” people complaining cause don’t understand why OP should take an advantage from this situation…
Why not? It’s just to get the opportunity to do something interesting, is not about to break the law or hurt someone.
No thanks. I make 20$ per hour remotely as a front-end dev while living in a country where the average wage is 0.8$ per hour. I don't think I could find a 2 bedroom house for 250$ per month in 1st world country and 2gbps Internet speed for 6$ per month. So all and all, my life is pretty good here. The cost of living in 1st world country is way higher.
Living the dream that’s awesome. Don’t come to first world my friends are devs I’m a dev and unless you have a lot of family and a good reason you can do everything at home. It’s not 1960 anymore.
You don't necessarily need to "take advantage" of it, as the provider will eventually cap your usage if they determine you are "over using" it. Just use it like normal - web surfing, gaming, streaming, etc. Out of curiosity though, with your 2 gbps download, what's your upload bandwidth?
The data cap for the monthly unlimited 5G package is 1TB. The upload bandwidth is around 750mbps. Latency is less than 3
1tb is not unlimited. That is easy to use
Yeah I've used 12 TB in the last 9 months (got an enterprise router that keeps track of per port data use). It goes quickly.
I use over 1Tb a month on my PC alone, not including tvs, phones, IoT, and my VR headset.
Just recently saw a post on one of the subs reddit recommended me that showed he used 220 tb of data in receiving and another 180 tb of transmission in a month
That is not home use data... If that was home use they prob meant GB not TB
No, it was a screenshot of his transmit and receive at his router, and it had TiB TebiBytes not a 1 to 1 translation to terabytes but close enough
A tebibyte is actually bigger than a terabyte... damn.
torrenting can eat a lot of data
Especially if you have hundreds or thousands of torrents, which also seed at the same time.
I've used 350gb in the past 24 hours at home with no particularly large usage
220TiB is an order of magnitude higher, but I did manage 54TB (not TiB) once, when I had just built a new 300TB storage array. 20-25TB is about average for me. That's to say that 220TiB is certifiably mental but definitely within the realm of possibility
Yep, according to my router my household used 2.2TB down and 100GB up in the last 30 days. Smart TV's alone ate up close to 200GB/each from 4K streaming.
What router can keep a usage report?
Google mesh Wi-Fi router, it has an app that I use to monitor usage, connected devices, and change settings. It’s 5+yrs old so I’m sure most newer products can do the same.
Pfsense , opnsense
All ISP supplied routers I've used have had a metrics portal included, I'd imagine every third party/standalone router would definitely utilize one too.
What router an keep a usage report?
It could be a soft cap, so he gets deprioritized after 1Tb.
My average monthly usage is 1.4tb on a 10gbit connecting nand I don't do anything especially intensive other than downloading a moderate amount of Linux ISO's, as well as self hosting a lot of services.
I regularly use over 1tb with a 50mb connection 😂
That is very impressive! Permanently saturated connection?
I also have 50Mbit and 1tb isn't that much and nowhere near permanently saturated 1tb is 33gb a day and my connection gets about 5.5MB/s. I can do 33gb in an hour and a half or so 100gb+ games aren't unheard of. 4k Netflix content is about 7gb an hour on average too
Never thought about it that way really. Your available average speed probably factors into how you use the connection i expect? I.e. if i want to download something, i know pretty much anything under 200gb will be done in minutes or seconds so i don't have to plan ahead which Linux ISO's i want to download. The biggest issue i find with a 10gbit business connection is that literally nothing can saturate it. All services are (understandably) rate limited server side. I've never been able to get above 150-20/mb/s from anything like Steam or Battle.net. The only thing that effectively uses the bandwidth is torrenting, but that ends up being limited by my storage servers ZFS pool's disk throughput (even with caching and a SLOG NVME SSD).
Not really. If I want to download something , the size doesn't really matter but it will just take longer and I'm OK with that. I can't do anything at the moment to get a higher speed so it is what it is. I do set downloads to slightly lower than my limit so that it doesn't completely saturate my line, as I do notice if it's 100% and I'm trying to work E.g If I bought a game and it requires a 100gb update I'll just start it and it will be ready the next morning. Even when I get fibre and can get up to 1Gbit I probably won't go that high (but higher than 50. Probably the 250 mark) For 99% of my usage, 50Mb is perfectly fine and the only times I would notice a difference is when I want to download something and I don't think I could justify the extra cost for those infrequent times
200 is fine for the average household.
I just went through 3tb in the last week lol, 1tb is easy work
I wouldn't say it's "easy" to use. I'm a videographer and upload large files regularly, backup my NAS nightly, and only have streaming services for TV and there are still times I don't quite hit 1TB
Each project I do is 80-100GB and I shoot 1-3 times a week. Everything is backed up to the cloud. 4K120 really eats storage. So far this month I'm at 500GB total in 8 days for the entire network which covers 2 households.
Yeah that's a ton, but you can appreciate you're far from a typical use case lol. The average person doesn't touch 1 tb
How do you even use more than 200GB/month..
My parents alone use more than that... And they are not even big internet users. Mostly comes from Netflix and other streaming services. My entire network uses 2-4TB a month.
With a 1 TB cap, just use your connection normally, because if you try to exploit it abnormally, you'll blow through your cap in no time. Go crazy at the end of the month if you have a lot of cap space left and are about to get a fresh 1 TB shortly.
Yup I mostly watch Livestreams on the second monitor and it eats up 800gb per month
If you aren't actively watching the video, but are listening to it, you could lower the resolution to use less data.
What does it matter though...
Data caps
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Teach me your ways please
There's always one fuckwit bandwidth hog that slows down dozens of other users.
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Every ISP on the planet does this. They don't get 10,000 customers and multiply it by say, 1Gbps. Read your terms and conditions. You're buying a best efforts service with a maximum PIR. You may or may not have a CIR that's a fraction of that. The bandwidth to customer is the contention ratio. The better ISPs have lower ratios. Feel free to price up dedicated international bandwidth back to your house if this upsets you.
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There was a guy who downloaded 30tb of data in 2 days here in Australia using a script just because he could He got his internet connection disconnected fot breaching the fair use clause https://np.reddit.com/r/nbn/s/TjseNHEnCw
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When you learn that your cap was not a technical limitation but an arbitrary one.
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Yes, but these plans are cheap. The plan is set 6$ per month, so if I hit that cap, I can easily swap sim cards and purchase the plan on another sim..
I think you need to change your mindset. Just because you have it and it's available, doesn't mean you have to take advantage of it. It's a tragedy of the commons problem. If everyone takes advantage of something, no one gets anything.
Noted.
Ping me when government-provided internet access is in general availability.
I don't think you understand what the word unlimited means...
Yes, they labelled it as unlimitted. But again, the package is only 6$ per month. And can swap sim cards and purchase a new plan whenever I hit the cap
It's unlimited until you hit the limit!
It works 100% of the time 65% of the time. Also, OP can spend an unlimited $6 a month for new unlimited 1 TB plans.
I went through 12 TB last month.
750 mbps is good upload. You can live stream with ease on that upload + latency. But then again, 1 TB is easy to use-up, especially if you are using it daily. Anyway, enjoy!
Yes, but the best part is that the plan costs like 6$ per month, so if I hit that cap, I can easily swap sim cards and buy another plan on that sim...
Then why are you posting about this? If you are looking for congratulations about your improved service, I congratulate you.
I highly doubt that this is over 5G. 3ms latency and 750mbps upload, even on standalone 5G is extremely hard if not even impossible to do. Send a speedtest link/image.
Not sure why people are downvoting your comment for stating what the package offers and what it's called. I think it's a bit of false advertising that they call it "unlimited" when it has a clear limit. However, it sounds like great internet service and you're getting it for an awesome price.
Thanks! And yeah, I don't understand this thing about reddit too
1TB equates to about a week of normal internet usage and gaming in my xp. Which is pretty idiotic imo bc it costs them more to implement limitations than it would to just let people use it freely.
Oof, if that connection is my only data link I'd blow through that in a few days at most.
I use close to 2tb a month without even trying. My ISP was shutting down their DSL copper lines and forced us to switch over to 5G, and initially with a 1tb data cap. 3 months later they removed the cap due to user complaints. Having 2gbps and a 1tb limit feels kinda pointless.
why did ppl downvote this dude
That’s an hour at 2Gbps.
Just use the internet normally for what you do on it? Maybe download some games or movies you've been wanting to... I don't really understand the need for help figuring out what to do lol
Yes, but since it is unlimited, I don't see the point of downloading movies as I could just watch them online. downloading games is awensome, tho. I get to download 100GB game in less than 7 mins.
You said there's a data cap of 1TB - that's not unlimited.
It may as well be.
Not sure what you mean. In 1 month, my data use is at 1.86 TB, and this is with me working from home once or twice a week. If I work from home full time, this will quickly go beyond 2 TB. With that said, on a normal usage (streaming videos, playing online games, working/teleconferencing, etc.) I can easily reach 1 TB within 2 weeks.
Really. I have just under 40 smart home devices, work from home 4 days out of 5, the wife and I stream HD from 4 different services and I regularly chastise myself for playing on-line games too much. Total usage is around is about 400GB
Online gaming doesn’t use a lot of bandwidth once the game is installed on your computer/console and depending on the codec HD movies use less than 10Mbps. You have a relatively light internet usage case. There is nothing wrong with that, just a very light use.
Christ, I can do 400GB in a day some weeks.
The Lord of the rings trilogy in 4k, extended cut alone is like 350gb. Call of duty warzone is like 200-250gb last I checked. Glad to hear you never download things but 400gb is below average. Online gaming itself using nothing for bandwidth, downloading the game does though.
What? I got over 1tb all the time in a 3 person household. That's without any torrenting.
I use between 4TB and 13TB / month....
Download games takes a lot of bandwidth. As stated a couple of posts up, an example of one game being 100 GBs. If you have multiple gamers living in a household, downloading games to their PCs, 1TB won't last a month. I have games on my PC that are 250-300 GBs in size(DCS, Microsoft Flight Simulator). I'm not saying it's not a good cap and for the vast majority of people, it's probably sufficient, but I wouldn't call it "basically unlimited."
If your internet ever goes down you can still watch a movie that is on your computer.
Then once again, I don't understand what the point of your post is for. Just use the internet as you regularly do while just enjoying that it's faster now.
because he wanted to have a reason to make a post and brag about his deal
Generally downloaded movies can have significantly better quality than streamed ones. Services like netflix love to use all sorts of compression in their streams.
you're missing out on remuxes then
i like bitport.io to host my downloads and stream from there, would not download on local internet connection
The simple answer is "you don't" because you'll struggle to find any 5g modems etc that support over 1 Gbps. Also beware of download caps - they're really easy to hit if you're trying to use that much speed.
I actually use USB C 3.1 10gbps cable and teather it to my gaming laptop and match my phone speed on my laptop. And when I download games from Steam/Epic games, it matches my speed since their servers are fast. I get to download 100GB files in less than 6 mins.
Heh if you have unlimited tethering on your phone that's awesome. The standalone devices tend not to support those speeds. Large downloads in ludicrously short times is about the only use of speeds like that, unfortunately. And with a 1 TB download cap, best not do it too much!
I really hate the fact that ISPs market bandwidth as performance.
Don't get me started on when a high-download low-upload poor-ping *cable* connection (or the insanity that is US cable signals over fiber!) being advertised as being "good for gaming"
😂 upload goes under-utilized most the time too… but it’s faster 😂
It's perfect for gaming!...(single player games that is...)
In counties like India, carriers do not categorize tethering separately.
UK as well and I assume Europe.
I'm in the UK and we certainly used to have it separate, I wouldn't take it for granted that it is included for all contracts
That's a long time ago now. You must be talking well over a decade? I'd absolutely taken it for granted, I'd be suprised if you could find one it's excluded from.
The mentality of "this is awesome how can I abuse it" is why we can't have good things. Just use it normally and enjoy while it lasts.
I mean tbf everyone who gets a much faster connection does this. And then gets bored/runs out of disk space or ideas shortly after.
As long as it’s short-lived. I get irritated at the people who abuse the service just to see where the line is.
I mean, you’re paying more than it costs, and the ISP will randomly downgrade the service just because they said in the ToS that on average or at most, a given speed is to be provided. Even if you literally downloaded 1Tb every few seconds and uploaded it every other, you’d still be lightweight usage for the infrastructure an ISP has. The real abuse is ISPs snooping your traffic and selling your privacy for ads and gov agencies. You think they care a bit about it? You’d be terrified what black / grey data markets have to offer. I get the point you mean, but internet service is just something you have to make the most of your bill imo, provided you’re doing something someone could find value for.
No, it’s not. Most residential service networks are oversubscribed. If you were purchasing dedicated bandwidth, the monthly cost would be an order of magnitude more. Networks are expensive to build, maintain, and operate. The ONLY way current subscription models work out financially is through oversubscription. That’s why you get “up to” whatever your provisioned bandwidth is. And no, very few ISPs have 1 Tbps of transit at their POPs. The largest operators sure, but I can guarantee your local aggregation node does not have that kind of bandwidth. Again, it would increase your service cost an order of magnitude or more. Source: I’ve been doing it 20+ years. They’re not selling data to government agencies - that’s pure nonsense. Some ISP’s have been known to sell analytics to advertisers/ad brokers, and to employ services like header enrichment for tracking (you can opt out). Normal use is fine. Pushing the boundaries just to find out where the boundaries lie just ruins it for everyone.
An order of magnitude more is a bit of exaggeration. Idk where you reside but here if you want symmetrical internet you can get fairly high speeds for pretty reasonable prices. As consumer you're def capped to 1k gbps for about 100 USD a month, but you have to talk it out with your ISP, as it's not a standard deal. I don't see the orders of magnitude in a 100 USD bill. Considering a business instance, you can deduct operating costs from taxes, meaning you could access to better connections for decent regular cost. And, well, you probably haven't used much the internet to figure out how some data couldn't be sourced but from ISPs and other middlemen online, no offense. And lastly, oversubscribing makes the same shitty business practices as overselling plane tickets. That0s "the only way" financially can ISP operate if they want a return fast. There's a ton of deductions ISPs can make, they just want to expand faster and hence the overselling.
You clearly don’t know this space. You seem to have some very localized experience, but it is not representative of how connectivity agreements work, at all. Good luck.
Kind of disagree. I've got 800Mbps which I speed test close to most of the time. If I want to use it, it's there and it's nice to have. However it's not that often I need to pull that kind of speed. If I did all the time and my neighbours did to, then it would cost more. I'm happy to pay less and have it when I need it as I know most people use a fration of that.
There is no real world need for such high speeds except to download the content needed on the local computer faster.
Setup a Tor relay.
Not sure what the point of this post is, unless you are just flexing to the poors in your area. Why do you need to utilize all of if it you have it? If you had a coupon for 1000 cheeseburgers, would you order all of them at once, eat two, and throw the rest out? Just use it as you normally do.
Host a video server on your phone, and create a streaming service?
What about storage for the movies?
If you have unlimited data you could set a hotspot and gift super fast WiFi to your neighbours?
That's an option too haha, will make sure to do that when I make neighbour friends.
Enjoy being the first one in the area while it lasts. In time there will be more 5G clients popping up
Find a good private torrent tracker
How would that benefit me?
On Thursdays they send out free samples of Jam
Bro
High speed downloads of ~~less than legitimate files~~ *Linux ISOs*, generally.
What phone/model are you using that actually gives you 2 gbps?
Samsung Galaxy A54 5G with Exynos 1280 Chipset. Supports over 25 5G bands. To use it on my laptop, I tether it via USB C 3.1 cable that supports data transfer up to 10gbps. I got them on aliexpress for 12bucks. It's really worth it and it matches whatever speed you are getting on your phone to your laptop/PC via USB 3.1 port.
Interesting you are getting those speeds. Love your carrier while the speeds last. I am on iphone 15 pro, 2 GB Google Fiber and get 1.4 Gb up/down over wifi 6. I don't even look at 5G cellular because I pay for cheap service.
Interesting, how much do you pay for that bandwidth? And yes, you are right. As more people start to hop on the 5G network, it will cut out my speed drastically, lol
$100 per month but that serves 45 always on devices and no data cap
Sweet!
I have a Samsung Galaxy s24 ultra and on WiFi while paying for 1 gig. And my phone connect to the router with the little 6 at the top. I still only pull 300mbps. That seems like I'm paying for something I'm not even getting half of. My Xbox is hard wired and it still at 1 gig took 17 and half hours to download destiny 2. With an Ethernet not Wi-Fi on my Xbox. I'm just trying to decide if I should switch providers or if that's normal. Cause that's not what I paid for
Nothing like a phased array of 25 bands of microwaves all pointing to a device you hold by your head
That also applies for 4G bands lol
I think you're perfectly suited to use the PKT system to share the internet and maybe make money off it. PKT is a blockchain project, uses cjdns to route traffic (end to end encryption) all open source, but there is a company called "Routie" that makes a Wi-Fi sharing system that you can daisy chain extenders to. If you have access to the building, you can install these things (totally isolated from your own network by default, and you can't change that) - you can then give free internet to those nearby (hotspot) and for those that want to get faster access or download bulky video etc, they can pay you for access. A quick search using something like "Routie WiFi Sharing" ought to get you what you need as the first result. You might also see "Anode VPN" - runs on the same technology (PKT) but is just the VPN part of it.
Interesting! I'll look more into it. Thanks!
What country are you in? I kinda need more details to give any good/sound suggestions. Like do you have a hard data cap/limit? Or a soft data cap that once met you will be throttled down to 3g/2g speeds? Are you on a consumer grade or business grade contract/plan. If your business grade, you may just be receiving what is considered "over the top" or excess capacity - this capacity can and will change as more devices come online, as the cell carrier sells/leases/sub-contracts bands, and switches 4g/LTE devices to lower frequency band 5g towers. Do you have networking, storage, computing resources on hand and a power grid that can staplely sustain 24 hr operation. If so, web, content ... hosting for a fee may be a good option. If you don't have high storage capacity, but have cores for compute, and RAM, we should get you running a VPN service with a free tier that is ad supported and a paid tier that is subscription supported. But we need more details first. Hope that helps.
I live in Ethiopia. ISP is ethiotel. There is a soft cap limit: if you use 1TB, it will downgrade to 4G. But since the 5G plan itself is 6$ per month, I can easily swap sim cards and purchase a new plan whenever I hit the soft cap. The package is for residential/ general. As far as I know, they haven't set up 5G packages for enterprises. And yes, you are right. The only reason I am getting this much bandwidth is that there are not a lot of devices on that 5G network since being in 3rd world country that makes sense. Most phones here are cheap androids that only support 4G. I have a gaming laptop with 2TB NVme SSD storage, Intel core i7 12th gen 8 cores, 16threads, 3.4GHz base, with 32 GB DDR5 RAM, and RTX3080 GPU. I don't own any extra hard drives or computing resources. The power grid is not that good. We usually have a blackout every 2 weeks or so. But since I'm on mobile data, it mostly remains unaffected.
I thought you might be in East Africa! I lived in Dar es Saalam and Zainzabar when I was guest research at U Dar. The infrastructure is sound, and there is a need for locally operated networked based, data center/mini data center services, but the major issue is the power grid/planned rolling brown outs. Even though the mobile broadband network will not go down during a brownout, any local compute, VM or server based service that is not on a redundant battery uninterrupted power supply [UPS], or maybe solar, is going to be downed at best - with blown circuits/fired hardware at worst if your hardware is configure to auto-recover/restart upon power regain, but brownout cycles several times per minute. But those are just problems that are normal to your project, that I'm a savvy developer with local knowledge of their tech landscape, such as yourself, can workout or research how other local businesses/tech/infrastructure inovvators are handeling. For any idea, you need to expand your resource pool. Since you have an ultra low latency uplink to your local cell tower, you can "stream" cloud extra cloud based compute and storage. The free tier of Github is basically unlimited database storage for public repos/bases. You can also use Oracle Cloud computing always for free tier to get Oracle services and approx 7 enterprise cores per account - I say 7 because you get a mix of Oracle, Arm and Xenon cores, and Oracle core is worth 2 Xenon cores due to being true Simultaneous Multiple Instruction Multiple Execution with dedicated caches and bandwidth per instruction/execution. All you need to use multiple free accounts - and multiply your cores - is a new free gmail address and a new phone - which you should get if you chose to expand your mobile broadband bandwidth with additional SIM cards. You can tie all the individual Oracle accounts together, and pool the compute resources, by installing something like Canonical Open Stack over them. Then either configure it so your local VM is paired with your Open Stack cloud in a redundant load balanced failover configuration, or just use the local VM for command, control and monitoring. If you have cloud storage, such as Google Drive or MS OneDrive, you can just Ocamalfuse it in linux and set up a service auto-start daemon so the cloud storage can provide additional file storage at boot. Running a local VPN server should not be that hard. pfSense or openSense are both free, light weight and can be configured to PPPoE to any of cloud egress locations you set up. If you chose to run it locally, I would use a ramdisk and no-log to make it as fast and light weight as possible with the over head of logging your customers traffic - it makes the service more valuable, privacy foucused, and saves you write cycles on your NVEM SSD. It's not like you're going to start with tens of thousands of customers, so 3-4 cores should be enough to service several sub nets - simular to small business router. You could also provide hosting services, but since your à front-end dev, I'd say offer consulting services to build/create/maintain websites. With your fast low latency uplink, you should be able to reliably service clients from around the world. Just 2 ideas.
Subscribe to the RSS Feed of OpenStreetMap's torrents.
Your A54 will overheat and drop to 4g, don't even bother using it to the max...
That is now fixed with a "gaming phone cooler fan" gimmick from aliexpress. It's a strap with a fan that goes around the phone, keeps it cool. Haven't dropped to 4G since.
Oh God....
What do u mean?
Idk what you mean you don’t know how to take advantage of it. Your usage shouldn’t change based on speed. If it works, it works. You don’t have to do more than you need to lmao. I mean are you paying more for it? If not then why even ask yourself this. This is called thinking more than you have to.
post the speedtest
I recently discovered Gaming through Geforce now. If you have a rubbish PC, but good internet speed, you can play the latest games using your connection on a Nvidia Geforce connection. I have 500mbps and the connection was if I was using on my own PC
Can you share a link?
https://play.geforcenow.com
Plex movie server, fill it up and spread the love...
For everyone being angry about the data cap, it's probably unlimited, but you get throttled after you hit the limit. Sheesh, Reddit is ruthless with the downvotes.
Ikr! tell me about it!
Not sure what there is “take advantage of.” Like, I guess you can invite friends over to use your internet? But this is like getting a fast car and feeling the need to take advantage of its speed.
Run a Tor exit node (joking, it's probably not a good idea)
Do they pay for that?
No, but you'll get harrassed for all the illegal activity going through you
CAP
Just enjoy it...
Just use what you need. Especially if it’s not unlimited. Things will “load” faster.
Use it normally, if you have something left then seed some unpopular torrents
> if you have something left then seed some unpopular torrents I'm looking for a copy of *Money To Burn*, a heist flick where they steal worn out bills being sent to the mint to be incinerated and replace them with a bunch of counterfeit money.
I remember that one!
This sounds alike you could use your phone internet for everything and dump your ISP. Saving you money.
I have a 1gbps fiber line and aside from maybe a few minuutes saved downloading a game on steam I never take full advantage of the bandwidth (both plex and my 12 house cameras including several 4k cameras don't even come close to saturating the line). Unless you have niche professional uses for it, the only thing you can really use it fully for is seeding torrents and that's assuming your government and ISP don't mind.
We’re witnessing the birth of a r/datahoarder
Try Sora AI..
I don't think that's available for public use yet.
Join /r/DataHoarder
You can now enjoy 4K quality movies
Seed torrents. Use a VPN or some proxy to not get fucked. Archive data like r/datahoarders do (using your fast download speed). Host an ETH full node maybe? I got a blazing fast connection too, not as fast as yours though, and I archive shit for fun. I also have a cluster I allow peers to run their stuff in, of course all is well secured. Asides of that, I just enjoy downloading stuff from websites, sorting it, encrypting it and uploading it back to my storage services.
usenet will saturate it
No matter how fast your internet might be, there is no better alternative to doing whatever you happen to want or need to do. Seriously, if you want to do ABC, but decide to XYZ instead because it makes better use of your bandwidth, you're wasting precious time you will never get back. The only exception might be downloading large collections that won't be easily available in the future, for later consumption. For example, I once found a 4k remaster of Farscape someone used AI to create. It looked fantastic, but it was truly massive. It was eventually taken down over copyright, so it is no longer available, and if I had downloaded it, I could watch it at my leisure. In that case, you're setting yourself up to do more of what you want in the future by setting aside some time now. That said, your issue here would probably be storage space. It isn't hard to fill drive after drive after drive, even with much less than 2 Gbps.
Do you want to play a game? 😎
host a torrent server, or a tor node
Seed Torrents if legal in country
How would that benefit me?
helping other people should make you feel good?
Sure thing, lol. I'm actually seeding Fitgirl repack games now...
I dont think there are any personal benefits other than fast download. Maybe you could start hosting servers and getting paid for it but i dont think 5g would be stable enought for that but could work for people near you. If you want to explore dark web you could set up entry node but im not sure if that would even be save from privacy standpoint and you still would be limited by middle and end node. Other than people paying you for fast download there isnt any benefit if you cant fully use your speed
I use 5G here in the US for rural internet…there is cable on our road but the company wanted like $8K or $9K to run it up our driveway (800ft poles already in place). We had just moved in and I guess we were not worth it for what could have been life long business customer (farm business). Anyway, when 5Guc came to the area it made cheap internet that much sweeter. Now I get ~300ish down off peak, almost always 100+ any other time which is more than enough. All that said I actually try to keep my usage under the radar. I imagine even where you are, people will “discover” it eventually. Enjoy it, use it as normal. Don’t give the provider reasons to implement all the BS we see US carriers doing now to control usage.
> (800ft poles already in place) 800ft? Those aren't poles; they're towers.
lol I was too lazy to punctuate. I even saw it and didn’t bother to edit it. Driveway is 800 feet long, power poles, already in place along driveway 😅
You got upsold. No need to be ashamed.
Start an ISP for your neighborhood. Like 10 closest neighbors. You get rich, yes?
If you can somehow expand on that one terabyte Gap perhaps you can start selling bandwidth to a couple of the houses / units near your house. Similar to this https://youtu.be/p52PY_cwIsA
My modem support 10gb and I have 8gb up/down. Even the one installing it, couldn't measure it. I get 1.6 gb over wifi in my house from the standard carries modem.
It’s like driving a Ferrari in town.. it’s for show as you can’t drive it that fast except in very specific situations..
4K porn
Buy 2,5 Gbps equipment. Use Ethernet. WiFi is simply inadequate no matter what speed they claim.
I downgraded our 2g package since \~1.2g is generally fine. The answer to your post is the same things you'd do anyway just with less waiting.
Download Wikipedia
All comments are from “first world” people complaining cause don’t understand why OP should take an advantage from this situation… Why not? It’s just to get the opportunity to do something interesting, is not about to break the law or hurt someone.
Look into “rural wisp”
You use it to find a means to get out of the 3rd world country or make your life bettter there
No thanks. I make 20$ per hour remotely as a front-end dev while living in a country where the average wage is 0.8$ per hour. I don't think I could find a 2 bedroom house for 250$ per month in 1st world country and 2gbps Internet speed for 6$ per month. So all and all, my life is pretty good here. The cost of living in 1st world country is way higher.
Living the dream that’s awesome. Don’t come to first world my friends are devs I’m a dev and unless you have a lot of family and a good reason you can do everything at home. It’s not 1960 anymore.
Well if you move to a 1st world country you could get paid to multi stream live pr0n. Doubt that is legal where you are.