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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:37PM (#17814065)
Huh. I was gonna say it's weird that they'll throttle you a second time, because I don't imagine you could download much at 256kbps even in a whole month of continuous traffic, but I did the math and it turns out you could get about 85GB in 30 days. So I guess that makes sense.
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Re:Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data duri... by userbinator on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @10:12PM (#17815712)
I still remember the times when a 256K internet connection was not cheap, and ironically also "unlimited" in the sense that you could saturate it 24/7 for the whole month and no one could care less. Many weeks spent waiting for downloads to complete... some from P2P too.
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