So yesterday I got “The Call” from Shaw cable. Apparently they were a bit concerned over my bandwidth use lately. I peaked in December with 117G combined upload and download, 90 in January, and 68 last month. Seems hey have a limit of 20 Gigabytes of combined (combined!) upload and download traffic before you get “on the radar” and you start getting calls telling you to cut it out or they’ll cut you off.
I managed to convince them that I was trying to keep myself down, but due to server swap overs and whatnot the traffic was up (which is true BTW, or at least mostly true), and avoided getting my service cut off for 7 days (which is what they were calling to inform me that they were doing. I’m already at 4G for this month already (only 5 days in!) so I’m re-evaluating my automated backups and other (software, music, movie) aquisition software. The FTP has been limited to a slower speed, but I really doubt that that did anything huge to it. They noted that the “under the radar” limit for the business package is 50 gigabytes. That seems pretty low. Wonder what the limits are for the Telus high speed service?