What to Do with an Old iPad

Re:What to Do with an Old iPad by Nextgrid on Saturday September 06, 2025 @08:54PM (#45154301)

> your ISP may have a problem with your set up (giving it's on the front page of HN and will be experiencing some traffic)

Does your ISP have a problem when your computer/phone/etc does a cloud backup? Or when you torrent? Because both of those will max out your upload bandwidth much more than hosting a static website.

I think the concerns about ISPs complaining are extremely overblown on HN, but happy to be proven wrong.

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Re:What to Do with an Old iPad by tombert on Saturday September 06, 2025 @09:48PM (#45154639)

I do use a VPN, but I have torrented many, many terabytes of, errr, Linux ISOs. I haven't ever gotten so much as a nastygram from Verizon, and I still appear to get pretty close to advertised speeds.

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Re:What to Do with an Old iPad by heavyset_go on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:23PM (#45161795)

> I think the concerns about ISPs complaining are extremely overblown on HN, but happy to be proven wrong.

Look at your agreement with your ISP. They typically segment the market into consumer/business plans where running a server requires a business plan versus a consumer plan.

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Re:What to Do with an Old iPad by op00to on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:52PM (#45162027)

I have fiber in the east coast of the US with a national provider. They don’t care about uploading, at least up to 10-15 TB/month.

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