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Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se... by diminoten on Monday August 12, 2013 @03:46PM (#6201233)
What exactly do you mean by, "abuse"? If your argument is that Google doesn't want someone overusing the bandwidth they've paid for, then you're saying that it's reasonable for Google/any ISP to sell you something that you then can't make full use of.

If Google sells me 1gbit up/down, then I should be able to use 1gbit up/down. Pretty simple to both understand and enforce. But it's not about their network capacity - it's about forcing me to buy the more expensive business package, so I can then do exactly that thing they didn't want me doing before.

It's a violation of network neutrality. They're caring which bits get sent, not the total sum of bits.

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Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se... by Benji_San on Monday August 12, 2013 @04:27PM (#6201575)
Personal use as in you're not selling bandwidth to a third party. There is most likely no problem running a mail och minecraft server, but they definitely don't want you selling bandwidth to your neighbours or hosting your video streaming service on it.
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Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se... by diminoten on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:22PM (#6202077)
Frankly, what's the problem with selling (let's call it giving for now, that keeps this simpler) bandwidth to a third party? It's just bandwidth, why does the source or content of the packets matter?
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Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se... by UVB-76 on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:48PM (#6202310)
You are not sold a truly unlimited connection, you do not pay anything approaching the cost of a truly unlimited connection, and Google do not provide you with a truly unlimited connection.

If you want a truly unlimited connection, buy a truly unlimited connection. They cost a lot of money.

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