Wholly agree. Better late than never.
There, FTFY.
about d utorrent thing i meant dat if sum1 accidently leaves the utorrent upload bandwidth to unlimited and forgets to close it while his computer is idle...it can exhaust all the data usage as the utorrent downloads are shared with other users ..
Whatever you have got queued will get finished, that's about it.
But if you're worried about the FUP being exhausted in so-many-hours, you're kind of missing the point of high-speed broadband, which is that because you don't have to wait for the downloads. Your downloads will finish, yes, but then you'll spend the rest of the month consuming them. Don't think that just because your speed multiplies by 10 or 20 times that you're magically going to start consuming 10 or 20 times as much data... maybe 150-200% of what you consume now, excepting for the first couple or three months where the high-speed is a novelty.
After that, keeping up with the downloads (organizing, deleting, buying new hard drives etc) becomes a chore. Believe me, I've tried. I got my first 100mbit/s connection nearly 7 years ago before I moved here and since then I've had speeds ranging from GPRS to the full 100 on Wireless, 2G, 3G,
ADSL, Metro Ethernet & Fibre and while the maximum I've used in a month was about 1.5TB (on my own connection I think in March or April), but the average is well well below that.
On high-speed somewhere in the 150-250GB range, and I am not really what you'd call a light user: I'm almost perma-streaming Youtube and/or other streaming sites (background
noise for sleeping and/or working), I download stuff on bittorrent (I won't say what), I send/receive about 2GB a day to various cloud services, I have high-definition video calls on Skype and so on. So far this month I've done almost symmetrical data transfer of about 220GB (so about 110GB in each direction +/- 1GB).
Of course, that's just me. If there were other people in my house I might need 3-400GB or more but the fact of the matter is, there's only so much you can really consume when you have a life. BUT on the flipside to this, that does not mean that higher tiers should not be available. There probably *are* people that need larger amounts - a terabyte or more.
I recently had one person claim to me that our FUP of 500GB was pitiful. When I asked him "how big is your hard drive", he went on to claim 50TB of storage in his house** (I'll believe it when I see it) but even if true I imagine that he would be an anomaly (or a commercial pirate) and that most people probably have something like 2-3TB. Sure, it's easy to get that in a single drive now, but do you really want to go buying a new one every month? I doubt it.
Anyway, the point of that diatribe is that Airtel would do well to offer better data transfer on it's FTTH packages - 300GB or more - in order to satisfy the lust for data and justify people upgrading.
**For the record, I did offer him a better package with a higher limit but he didn't respond.
Look forward to it.
