It’s happened, and people should start getting upset. Rogers has begun injecting packets to indicate that people have reached their “usage allowance” into arbitrary websites – which curiously does not include Google, likely due to the previous public outcry when test images appeared on Ars Technica.
The top frame on nearly every website obscures text and causes web pages to load extremely slowly. In my testing, the content loaded from 64.71.251.10 and often required websites to be reloaded before they would display properly. Unlike preview screen captures of this technology, there is no way to select “don’t display this message again”.
For interested individuals, the “acknowledge” address is http://64.71.251.10/isnsack.pl, which uses a JavaScript function to submit a CGI request.
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It seems your image doesn’t fit the width of the column..
Fixed, thanks.
Holy crap what are you downloading that you’re reaching over 95 GB a month?
I’m in total opposition of usage limits, but that seems way more than enough even for heavy Bittorrent usage. (That’s over 3GB a DAY)
There are actually two fairly heavy users on this line, myself and my dad. He’s been introduced to the wonders of BitTorrent, but really his usage wouldn’t come close to 95GB.
I’m definitely the culprit here, and perhaps this picture will explain things. Each drive pictured has different content on it, and SABnzbd in the background shows total usage over the past seven days.
With newsgroup access, my download speed is 10Mbit (about 1.1-1.2MB/s) all the time. So they give you really quick access, but at 1MB/s, you can only use your line at full capacity for 1.1 days in any given month before getting to 95GB. (In theory you could pull down about 86GB in a single day.)
The standard tier “express” package is significantly worse in this regard. At 8Mbit, you wouldn’t even get a full day of transfer in before blowing through the 60GB cap.
I’m definitely the exceptional case though. Most home users I know don’t go over 10GB in a month, and it’s the other computer science guys and people who VPN into work that are getting hit by this.
I just received this nice injection today – freaked my mom right out.
Turns out its not exactly monthly in the traditional sense – it goes from the start of the billing period to end of the billing period, which ends up being ususally from the 13th of the month previous, to the 13th of the current month.
For example, I have currently used 80% of my bandwidth for the period of March 13th to April 13th. Come April 14th, I’ll have another 95 gigs to use.
You know, if they’re gonna bitch about this, they should really introduce rollover – we’re allocated 95 and if we don’t use it all, we should get to carry it forward. Isn’t that the standard with Pay-as-you-go phones now?
In other news, when I got said injection there -was- an option to “never see this again”. I didn’t end up clicking it, just for testing purposes, so next time it pops up I’ll grab a screencap [as long as its still relevant.]
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