Weekdays, if there are no contention issues, you should be good for around 225GB per day download and maybe 160GB at weekends with 10% of those figures for upload. The assumption here is that you can run full speed outside of threshold hours then stop

BUT

Although you or I might consider such numbers normal for such a connection there are many others, especially on VM's forum, who will cry "unfair" and "illegal". Very few will believe that it is entirely possible to use this much bandwidth legally..... I know this from experience.... and VM themselves really don't like to consider unlimited to mean this sort of unlimited... Their definition is somewhat different (as usual)

It pleases me to see good use of a connection

I'm genuinely curious here. If you can give me a legit reason for using 225GB/day day in, day out, that'd be great.

The upload I can actually understand - seeding Linux and other legal torrents.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

I'm genuinely curious here. If you can give me a legit reason for using 225GB/day day in, day out, that'd be great.

Here's one - http://www.majestic12.co.uk/

Even the #1 guy there isn't getting close to 225GB / day. Can only crawl so many webpages, isn't like bulk downloading.

You misread it. The data figures are in MB.

# Nick URLsdone Data(MB)
1 Finlandrefic 424,321,627 10,698,850
2 United KingdomMajestic12 273,725,454 6,861,925

That's at 7pm so 19hours done and the top guy at 10,698,850MB is over 10TB in that time.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

I'm genuinely curious here. If you can give me a legit reason for using 225GB/day day in, day out, that'd be great.

The upload I can actually understand - seeding Linux and other legal torrents.

Who are you, the Internet Police?

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Who are you, the Internet Police?

Nope, just genuinely interested.

Should be noted he has 120 nodes working on it, none of which are reaching 10Mb/s throughput despite being in data centres.

I guess if you had enough nodes at home you could generate 200GB/day of traffic though. It would be a very weird use of a home connection indeed but is feasible, thank you.

Edited by deleted (Tue 20-Aug-13 10:04:33)

When UKOnline reduced new customer prices but not mine and refused to budge on price or let me go inside the minimum term I ran that flat out 24x7 on their ADSL. I used over 3TB a month for 3 or 4 months. Annoyingly they didn't even complain.

We didn't monitor customer usage on UKOnline, quite literally there was no accounting of usage at all.

Even if there had been no reports were ever done on it, backhaul wasn't allowed to congest.