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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by dvfjsdhgfv on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:14AM (#25315103)
> and occasionally just highjack every single query to send you to a page saying you’re approaching your bandwidth quota

It boggles my mind it's still a problem in some countries. Last time I saw this kind of notice it was in the nineties, and on a web server, definitely not on a client endpoint. People have had unlimited bandwidth for at least a decade now.

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by quineoa on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:40AM (#25315319)
This has regressed. In the NetZero days you would be limited to some hours per month depending on your plan. Then came unlimited cable. And now we are back: my residential AT&T DSL connection is limited to 1TB per month in the Bay Area
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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by iforgotpassword on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:46PM (#25317102)
Whoa. That would give you one day of laundry washing per month in the IoT age.

https://old.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/k72lzq/sowh...

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by Codazoa on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:31PM (#25317550)
Comcast in my area has a 1TB/month limit. When I used their service I hit that limit nearly every month.
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