Questions regarding Hayai Broadband

[mgcarley]

It has been discussed, but people downloading BD rips, or in some cases, playstation network and xbox live, although I've just started talking to the respective distribution networks about putting their appliances in our network so that this usage might not be counted.I think 250gb a month should be sufficient for all but a select few... That works out to 2 DVD rips a day. Or 1 DVD DL. But for anyone who has that kind of time to watch a movie a day, I envy you I'd say in this particular case we would be within our rights to refuse service, it appears clear that he wishes to abuse the network to the detriment of others. Like I said though, if most of that was traffic to other users on our network, then there would be no concern at all. So if if used 200gb of international traffic and 1 terabyte of local traffic, it's al good - a terabyte a month is nothing for a 1gbit/s connection. As such, it would depend entirely on where his traffic originates as to whether we would be concerned

 

[johnxxx9]

Is Hayai Zone a data hosting service ? Wouldn't there be risks due to the content uploaded and downloaded by the subscribers ?

 

[mgcarley]

No. The Hayai zone is what we call anything within our network - mirrors and certain services, or merely traffic between Hayai users. The simple rule is, if traffic leaves the network, it is counted towards the quota (where applicable), but otherwise it is not, so things like DCPP can work at east speeds without contributing towards quotas and whatnot.

 

[johnxxx9]

No. The Hayai zone is what we call anything within our network - mirrors and certain services, or merely traffic between Hayai users.

Is data transfer between 2 hayai subscribers included ??

 

[legend_killer]

@MGC.. Well let me ask you this Q.. Suppose CPE arrives today i.e. 8th June'2010. How soon your broadband will come out & which cities they gonna hit 1st?

 

[mgcarley]

@john is that not what I said?@Legend 22nd, tops, I think.

 

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[Shivaharsh]

Are expecting 1000 TB per month or something ?? :ishock::ishock:

Dude, your expectations cannot be satisfied anywhere in India or in the world. Even the most heavy torrent users I know of download around 200 GB worth of data at max per month. What sort of jobless person would download 1 terabyte worth of data in a month ?


ffs, i down a lot of 1080p movies...so a 150 gb limit would be crap for me. And after all i wanted to know what would happen if i exceed the imaginary limit. ?

 

[mgcarley]

ffs, i down a lot of 1080p movies...so a 150 gb limit would be crap for me. And after all i wanted to know what would happen if i exceed the imaginary limit. ?

I think you still fail to understand. There is no set limit. You might have your speed throttled if you're in the top 1% or so of users of International traffic, but otherwise it all depends on whether it's required to maintain a healthy network or what.

Other than throttling, we might call you and ask you to curb usage (a reasonable request), or upgrade your plan so that your connection is not constantly saturated (sustained transfers are bad for the network) or in particularly extreme cases, we may suspend the connection.

As also mentioned in the previous post, if you were to share/download most of those 1080p format movies via DC++ on the local network, 1TB is no problem: it's just the "valuable" and more expensive bandwidth that we are calculating against.

Per the previous example, if you use 1.2TB in a month, but 1TB of that is between Hayai users or whatever, then no big deal. If however, 1TB is from outside the network, we may have to take issue with it.

That said, as a consumer, we are under no obligation to guarantee that you can transfer that much (international traffic) on an unlimited plan. Rule of thumb in India is that you should buy a business line if you want guarantees on transfers, speeds and up-times...

I'm not taking this to heart, I expect to be delivering top-notch service, but basically if we are to place limitations on your account at any time due to reasons such as "network abuse", we - and any other ISP - are well within our rights to do that.

But like I said, 1TB is fairly excessive even by European standards, so I would hazard to guess that you would be throttled slightly before you hit 1TB so that we can maintain a high quality of service to all of our customers.

Either that or we could let the customers you affect loose so that they can figure out their own vigilante punishments for the user who is making their net slow (joke)

 

[anupcshan]

ffs, i down a lot of 1080p movies...so a 150 gb limit would be crap for me. And after all i wanted to know what would happen if i exceed the imaginary limit. ?

I think you can take a business plan, rather than a home plan, and download as you please. There should be no limits whatsoever on business plans - its meant for this kind of use. Not sure of this - maybe mgcarley can confirm.

 

[mgcarley]

I think you can take a business plan, rather than a home plan, and download as you please. There should be no limits whatsoever on business plans - its meant for this kind of use. Not sure of this - maybe mgcarley can confirm.

Businesses are rarely heavy downloaders... but we'd be less likely to take action on that.

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ffs, i down a lot of 1080p movies...so a 150 gb limit would be crap for me. And after all i wanted to know what would happen if i exceed the imaginary limit. ?

Besides, what do you have now? If 150GB is too small, then... well, there aren't too many ISPs in Pune that would allow too much more than that.