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I have a service that allows unlimited online backup. I also have an unlimited FTTC product. So I'm currently backing up my hard drives, which amounts to hundreds of GBs of data. I've never transferred this much data in a month before and find it hard to believe that anyone at Plusnet looking at my data usage would not think I'm abusing their service. At the back of my mind is the concern that sooner or later Plusnet are going to take action against heavy users, as they've done before. 
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They won't care less about upload usage anyway.
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so don't do a restore 
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So I'm currently backing up my hard drives, which amounts to hundreds of GBs of data.
Incremental?
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From the sounds of it this is the initial backup so I would say not.
O2 Standard (8Mbps LLU)
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Which service do you have?
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Correct.
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Rather not say until I've tested it for a while, it may or may not have teething troubles in some areas.
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Is WBC capacity symmetrical? So if an ISP pays for 100Mbit of capacity from BT, their customers could download at ~100Mbit AND upload at ~100Mbit? Or for my scenario require 200Mbit to have been purchased?
Over simplified I know, 95th percentile charging and all that..
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I assumed it was but apparently upstream capacity is 50% or so of downstream. I may be wrong so anyone is welcome to correct me if I am.
However even if is 50% I expect thats still plentiful as long as downstream isnt saturated.
BT Infinity 2 Since Dec 2012
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How many 'hundreds of GB' of data are you talking ?
After your initial backup of all systems, incremental backups won't be significant (or shouldn't be).
I can see where you're coming from, but suspect there are significantly lower charges associated with traffic now, else every smaller ISP would be getting their service from LLU services.
{If someone can provide links to where Openreach explains its traffic charges, that'd be useful, too. I have seen the cost for the line/service for Fibre and have assumed that with BT Broadband having scrapped the '300 GB per month' FUP, there has been a significant reduction in cost, or perhaps complete scrapping of traffic charges, because of the potential data throughput available on fibre, at any speed.}
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I am currently doing the same thing with Backblaze, and have my entire catalogue of FLAC music to backup....
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