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Originally Posted by linwelin
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That's a single computer's reading. It doesn't measure how much you've sent or received over your internet connection in total. Unless you only have one computer and it's directly connected to the modem, it's not accurate.
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Originally Posted by TJS
Could be a ridiculous suggestion; but why don't they just do an unmetered broadband if the cables can handle 1.5 GB/s if all connections were unmetered then there should be shorter congestion times (as long as P2P is monitored in some way) because any downloads should be able to finish super fast so it would only be bursts of traffic?
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The cables may be able to handle 1.5GB/s but that's shared between hundreds to thousands of users. If one person got full access to all capacity on the cable they'd rape the service for everyone else.