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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

And here are my qBittorrent stats. I left my computer running for 6 days, I never thought I'd get this far! But that electricity bill's gonna sting...

It's good to give back to the community.

EDIT: To any three-letter agencies who might be reading this post, I was uploading Linux ISOs and scientific research papers. I would never dream of uploading copyrighted material...

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[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

How does your ISP not molotov your house for this lol

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 22 points 10 months ago

I don't know about your country, but in mine the download and upload of home connections are both unlimited

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

I might dislike my natal country for many aspects (Mexico) but oh boy, it's unlimited home Internet connection and 0 fucks given about torrentig aren't certainly those.

[-] hackris@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Are you talking about speed or the amount of data you can transfer? If the speed is unlimited then oh boy, gonna move to Mexico :)

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I meant uncapped yeah, speeds are average, but se can get decent fiber amounts.

[-] THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago
[-] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago

That doesn’t change the fact that there’s suddenly an extra terabyte being uploaded through their pipes.

[-] THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So what he pays them for the data and they can't see if he is doing anything illegal. Just because i am curious did you really expect them to molatile him/her. Two or three games with teir dlc is about or over 1 tb anyways.

[-] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Downloading, yeah. Uploading, no. Most ‘normal’ folks aren’t uploading terabytes of data.

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People work from home using vpns. That's usually what they assume you're using it for. That or a home business.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago

I'm in this group. I happen to do CAD modeling and have to regularly sync 10GB+ models over WAN, so large spikes or even constant uploading streams are not unusual for me.

[-] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Right, I’m not disagreeing with you there. Shit, I use a VPN for work as well. I’m not uploading terabytes of data. Downloading, maybe, but I’m not running any servers at home.

All I’m saying is that using that much upload bandwidth, regardless of what’s being uploading, might throw up some red flags at OP’s ISP. They might force OP onto a business plan.

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh yeah, for sure. Does any ISP have unlimited upload though? I used to work for one. You'd have to go to business regardless because of the cap, from my experience.

Edit: wooooooh nevermind, I didn't even know other ISP's dared give unlimited upload without a business acount. I will admit though, nothing is truly "unlimited".

[-] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Some are cool with it if you just let them know you’re gonna be uploading a lot, but yeah. Most are gonna put a stop to it eventually.

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Over six days, that's about two megabytes per second, so 16mbit/sec. Residential plans are often 25 or 35 mbit/sec in the US on cable.

A similar traffic pattern might be a 4k security camera, typically 10mbit/sec, and likely over a VPN.

[-] kaupas24@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

I had some fun issue with inconsistent speeds a while back so I set up a docker container to periodically run a speed test and show that on a web gui. After about a month I stopped at ~200tb of network traffic both ways, not because I got a warning, but because I scared my isp shitless with statistics clearly illustrating them that they're not delivering the service I pay for.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

A TB over the course of a week. Thats less than 200GB a day, which is like, one update to a Call of Duty game.

[-] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago
[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

OP probably has symmetrical fiber so there’s little functional difference. Unless you mean the ISP would just assume that all that upload usage is due to torrenting. In that case, you’d be surprised at how much upload somebody can utilize when they actually have access to it. iCloud/google photos backups of a bunch of pictures/videos you take while you’re out suddenly occurring when you connect to your home WiFi, streaming yourself playing video games online, all kinds of stuff can cause all that usage. They can still suspect but what are they supposed to do about it?

[-] Tja@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

Probably because the ISP is getting paid

[-] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 months ago

If you pay for something they offer then it's not bad to take advantage of it.

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