[Ghostavo]

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/fios-customer-discovers-the-limits-of-unlimited-data-77-tb-in-month

"I have never heard of this happening to anyone," the 27-year-old Californian—who uses the screen name houkouonchi and would prefer not to be identified by name—wrote in a post on DSLreports.com entitled "LOL VZ called me about my bandwidth usage Gotta go Biz." "But I probably use more bandwidth than any FiOS customer in California, so I am not super surprised about this."

Curious about how one person could generate that kind of traffic, Ars reached out to houkouonchi and spoke with him via instant message. As it turns out, he's the ultimate outlier. His problem is more that he's violated Verizon's terms of service than his excessive bandwidth usage. An IT professional who manages a test lab for an Internet storage company, houkouonchi has been providing friends and family a personal VPN, video streaming, and peer-to-peer file service—running a rack of seven servers with 209TB of raw storage in his house.

The comment's section has some funny bits.

"I would have told the Verizon person that every night I backed up the internet onto floppies."
"You could try that, but from the bandwidth graph most of the traffic is outbound."
"I back up my floppies to the internet every night"

 

[Mongoose]

That's a terrifying amount of data.

[karajorma]

I don't know what he's complaining about really. He was quite obviously abusing the system and got caught doing it.

[BloodEagle]

I didn't really get a vibe of complaint from him, unless you count the comment about the pricing of business class services.

He still sounds like a complete asshat, though.

[The E]

Yeah, I can't really see why this is in any shape or form news.

[MP-Ryan]

Yeah, I can't really see why this is in any shape or form news.

77 TB of data in a month on a single residential connection seems like an interesting news tidbit to me =)

[BloodEagle]

If anything, I respect Verizon for not just knee-capping him like every other ISP in the country would have done at the 250GB mark.

[Suongadon]

If anything, I respect Verizon for not just knee-capping him like every other ISP in the country would have done at the 250GB mark.

Huh? What high speed providers are cutting people off that low?

*high speed in this case being: won't take ~350 hours of constant max-speed use to hit 250GB.

[BloodEagle]

AT&T.

[Klaustrophobia]

i've probably crossed the 250gb mark before.  full HD is ****ing huge.

[General Battuta]

gefs not gifs

[BloodEagle]

Are you sure that you're in the right thread?