I’m moving house and eyeing up a new fibre provider. They look very reasonably priced and a quick search of reddit and geekzone suggests their uptime is good. However im more concerned about whether I will get pinged for “reasonable use” under their unlimited plans given that I use between 200-400GB a month and sometimes more.

Despite slingshot being extremely expensive they at least haven’t said anything when I’ve hit 700GB in a month. It’d also be a dealbreaker if Hot Shot does port blocking with no way to control it and selectively open ports.

[–] yur7tahu@mastodon.nz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@terraborra
I use hot shot cause they're cheap. I think we average over 500gb. Haven't had any trouble so far.

[–] terraborra 2 points 6 months ago

Legend. Thank you that’s exactly what I was after.

[–] d3Xt3r 3 points 6 months ago

I haven't heard of Hot Shot, but 200-400GB seems like reasonable usage to me. Especially taking into account 4K streaming, and stuff like video game downloads being 100+GB, that figure actually would seem pretty conservative IMO.

[–] Dave 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of them, but if someone advertised unlimited internet and cut you off for 400GB of data then I think they would get in trouble for false advertising. If you average 400GB a month and occasionally hit 700 or 1TB I wouldn't expect to have issues.

I often hit 5TB+ and never even considered I might hit a fair use policy. 1TB or less is well within the "I just watch a lot of Netflix" defence and so I wouldn't be too worried about it.

[–] terraborra 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess I haven’t really compared my usage to others in quite some time. I did think it’d be defensible given there’s usually a 80GB+ patch or game install each month but just didn’t want the hassle of having to explain each month if I could avoid it.

[–] Dave 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, you usage is pretty normal these days, for the reason you describe. You're not the only one having to download 80GB updates or 150GB games off Steam, pretty common these days.

Here's our usage for the past few months. Just changed to this ISP in December which is why that's so low:

graph of internet usage showing over 6000GB almost every month

It did actually surprise me to learn how much we use. At the last ISP they didn't tell you how much you used, so I never knew. When we switched to this ISP I thought something must be wrong 😆