LHC@home

Oh to rage against the machine and greed of Comcast and this 1 tb data cap ..it will be the end of my Boinc farming hobby.

Being forced to pay an additional $55 a month to not be capped at a meager TB is not justifiable....As if network data is some rare resource like water or air.

The problem is the amount of data being moved by Boinc, running only Einstein and LHC w/ Virtualbox on my several machines.
This averages out to about 12 gigs of data sent/received per my 4 PC machines every 24 hours, in addition to the 50+ gb my Dell r810 was moving. Very quickly running past this arbitrary terabyte data cap.
Not including any other internet usage by the family.

Solutions such as fiber are not an option here.

*grumble grumble, sigh*

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why dont you change to another ISP who doesnt cap?

ISP's are generally monopolies in a most neighborhoods in the US.

Spectrum is the only real choice around here.
AT&T is double the price and is much slower.

Comcast is the only option here.
That raises the arguement about local Utilities Districts and HOA's ,
net neutrality, access issues.

Until CenturyLink or Google drops fiber in this area, the other options are even more limited in speed and also data capped as well.

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Yikes, it's been a few years since I had to use a metered internet connection at home; I never used 1 TB but that was five years ago! Have no idea how much I use these days.

Yes, Internet access generally boil down to two options in most areas; either the phone company, or the cable company. And, there are only two or three companies in each category that get most of the business across the entire nation. In some smaller areas, you may only have one "option" for a hard-line service provider.

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