bigsinky

I have avoided this for 10 years but eventually they have caught up with me. I got a couple of new 2TB drives for my new computer system and decided to fill them up with LINUX distos my £7/pm subscription to Astranews has taken a bit of a hammering this month. I suppose 900GB this month already is a bit excessive. better ease up i think or schedule downloads after 9pm. Anyhoo here is part of the email i received. consider my wrists slapped.

Dear Mr

Detrimental use of your broadband connection

As you may know, we don't place any limits on how much data you can use on our broadband service. However, we've recently noticed an unusually large amount of data being transferred over your broadband connection between 9am and 9pm daily.

This is a problem because it is now having an adverse effect on the performance of other customers' service in your area during these busiest times of the day. Under our Acceptable Use Policy ( paragraph 3.2.1 ) we reserve the right to take action in these circumstances - when the usage of up to 0.1% of our customers affects the service of other customers. You can view our Acceptable Use Policy at www.virginmedia.com/acceptableuse.

With this in mind we would ask you to move the majority of your uploading and downloading to outside of the busy 9am-9pm period. This will ensure you don't affect the service of other users in your area.

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

You selfish *******

Coffin Dodger

900Gb of ****

Careful else you'll go blind

Fat Boy

900GB.I think we've found the PS3 hacker, gentlemen.

Simon C

Busy between 9am and 9pm. Surely between 9 and 4pm, the little gits are at school, and most people are at work?

Hysteria1983

Wow and I thought I was 'leeching' a lot with my NZB's.

I have had an email in the past but nothing that formal, but I did think that was maybe I was getting my bandwith'throttled' (not literally!)

boxst

900gb!!! Wow.

Jamz3k

So this is how Nutscorner Market is getting all the new releases so quickly. Pikey *******.

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

Scoobynet puts topics in tweets you know ?

http://twitter.com/#!/ScoobyNet_com/

Then Virgin media look out for Tweets about Virgin .. when they saw this topic guess who got an email

900GB... jesus man .. that best be some great **** ..

Brun

Seriously - what the hell are you downloading? The biggest HD i ever had was 80g and i never even managed to get that half full in 4 years

Hysteria1983

Lol!!


It's amazing how often scoobynet comes up on top for a lot of google searches too.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Thats what being owned by IB does. At the moment we must have about 100 webcrawler bots (mostly google) roaming SN and putting posts/threads into search listings

Don't ask me me why, it must be about getting "click" revenue.


Mind, I didn't even know SN showed up on twitter But I've never used it and never will. Although I guess by posting this on SN I'm actually twittering at the same time...dammit

bigsinky

Pimmo, I am duly contrite, its maybe about 300GB a month usually. Is this a case of 3 strikes and they do something. I dont want to be black balled here. Can you offer me some advice? do i need to worry or just curb my daily usage to after 9pm. My big time is between 4pm and midnight. i work early and finish at 3.30pm most days. being 5 minutes from works means i am usually home for 4pm.

I know 900GB is excessive, and i honestly didn't think i had downloaded that much.

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

The letter doesn't say anything about three strikes, I'm not sure if that rule is still in play .. people are being cut off for taking the **** though ..

Just download outside the times and you'll be fine.

bigsinky

Spot on, thanks. I will await the internet police knocking on my door soon then

bigsinky

All this with a 50Mbit connection. God help me in September when VM roll out 100Mbit in Belfast.

bigsinky

Just check that Twitter thing out. Jaysus, Mary and Joseph is that every post uploaded to twitter as well?

JackClark

What's the consequence of such a large file sharing operation. The police have shut down smaller server farms.

Markus

Looks like it's just the first post of every new thread in non-protected areas of the site.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Why is anyone surprised about Twitter and web bots etc. crawling SN.. It's standard practice and is about getting traffic to the site so that it makes money and survives.

Not sure why that should be news to anyone? It's not exactly rocket science

JackClark

The Twitter integration was a surprise to me, trying to think of a fun way to use that right now.

dpb

http://youtu.be/u3ZLhnBYEXc

Fantom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKrUhuLXkIM

Ant

900gb Neil, I struggle to find anything worth downloading. You must just download every porno released

bigsinky

it wasn't **** ffs.........well not all of it

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

DYK

LOL at how downloading **** comes into the subject...
This is why you bought a computer eh

bigsinky

****......Moi.........never so many over 40 plumper movies, so little time

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

900gig in a month isn't that bad and if your paying for the 50mb unlimited line you can download when ever you want. After all a proper blueray film is around 50gig so its only really 18 films and you could do that in a week

bigsinky

steve

fully maxed out at 6MB/sec (providing there are no outages at the news server) means about 500GB per day. yes you read that right 500GB per day. i thought i had done my sums wrong but i rechecked and it right.

500GB per day, 3.5TB per week, 15TB per month. i think VM would cut me off shrpish if i attempted that. having said that if i was to move all my downloading to between 9pm and 9am, i could download half of those figures. I still think VM would have something to say about it as it would probably still be in breach of their acceptable usage policy.

Anyhoo, aint gonna happen as i would have to queue all the stuff for download anyway.