[clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

[Gustin Johnson]

On 10-05-04 07:35 PM, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> Gustin Johnson said the following on 5/4/2010 7:39 PM:
>> Officially you are not supposed to run servers on the residential
>> packages, you are supposed to upgrade to a business package.  Having
>> said that, I have had an https, ssh, openvpn server running 24/7 for
>> years without hassle.  You only get called when you start abusing
>> bandwidth.  I am not sure what their formula is, but it does seem to
>> favour uploading.
> 
> Sounds about like RoadRunner here.  I've never even hit 50Gig of
> throughput so I'm not worried.
> 
I regularly hit 200+ GiB of data.

>> Having said that, the product is far superior to their competitors so in
>> the end I chose the product that I liked.  Deep discounts are nice but I
>> am addicted to 15Mbit and can not imagine going back to DSL, even if it
>> were free.
> 
> Yeah,  I've got 10Mbit down, 1Mbit up here and really don't want to
> degrade my service any in Calgary. :-)

Amen to that.

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