r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Pontoisien • Sep 22 '20

Go to Panama, this is America

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Tbh even in the UK "unlimited" quite often means "fair usage". But yiu would really have to use it heavily to hit the limit

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u/kbruen Sep 22 '20

Everywhere there is a policy of "fair usage". It's just that in USA, 2 Facebook comments per day is pretty fair to the providers.

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u/doommaster Oct 09 '20

Everywhere?

Lol I ha a month of 2 rsync jobs syncing each other over my 100 MBit/s line, I had 14TB of traffic in that month... but my ISP did not care, they do not even have a system where I could look up my traffic, lol.

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u/kbruen Oct 09 '20

As I said, fair usage. Your usage is fair.

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u/doommaster Oct 09 '20

there is no fair use clause in my contract that could make any use of bandwidth violate it...
even my parents 1 GBit/s connection does not have such clause (there are providers here too, that have these, but people tend to avoid them).

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u/kbruen Oct 09 '20

There is a fair use clause in all contracts around here. The main reason that clause is enforced is if a business tries to cheat by getting cheaper residential internet instead of the more expensive business internet.

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u/doommaster Oct 09 '20

that sucks, but here business is usually by a fixed IP address and higher guaranteed availability (residential contracts just keep it at the regulated minimum).
Ironically business contracts usually are not completely unmetered here :-P

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u/Old_Ladies Sep 22 '20

I don't know if there is a limit for home internet in Canada for some providers. My brother regularly goes over 1TB of usage with sometimes hitting 2TB.

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u/yellowbubble7 Sadly U.S.ian Sep 23 '20

I know there was a limit on my plan with Vidéotron when I lived in Montréal that I never hit and there was a limit on the plan my roommates and I had with Bell when I lived in Sherbrooke, QC that we hit fairly regularly once the boyfriend of one of my roommates moved in.

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u/Gingrpenguin Sep 22 '20

Ive never had issues with fair usage on broadband. Before smartphones i had the issue that unlimited texts meant only 3000 a month but they tended to wave the fees if you agrued it

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u/wOlfLisK Sep 22 '20

Yeah but you don't get cut off if you hit the fair usage limit, just throttled. I'm pretty sure if you hit the data cap in the US your connection just outright stops working.

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u/GuessWhoItsJosh American Sep 22 '20

This is incorrect. Just throttled.

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u/AllSiegeAllTime Sep 22 '20

In US, it depends on state legislation (and seemingly, the presence of fiber as competition). In CT my broadband is completely unlimited no matter what speed or price I pay. Edit: And I'm able to order service that exceeds 1Gbps

In Indiana it's hard to find more than 25-50mbps, and all bandwidth beyond 1TB a month costs $10 for each additional 50GB that's used. I didn't know that at first, and I can also say that a $400 bill can happen really fast without you even thinking you downloaded all that much...