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> I like my internet uncapped and unthrottled.

Which, for an ISP aiming at a market segment of people like you/us, is a fine way to lose all your lucrative business contracts because it's almost impossible to predict capacity & maintain your quoted contention rates under those conditions. Certainly few home users can afford/justify a totally unmetered uncontended connection at the sorts of speeds[1] we're used to seeing on ISP adverts. The credits/carry over monthly unused capacity[2] is a reasonable middle ground I suppose, although ideally it'd be finer granularity, but then again, would mess with capacity planning, and maybe expose users to serious overage charges without realising.

Whilst it doesn't directly affect your main point, it looks like they only count downstream data, so backups (in the general, non-restore case) wouldn't affect it much.

[Not a customer, although I'd be tempted to if I could afford it (I just checked, and probably can't)]

[1] Maximum speed may be less than quoted depending on your location. Fair Use Policies (We cap/throttle/terminate your account anyway, we just don't tell you about it up-front), Terms of Service (often including not running internet visible servers, and certainly not 25/tcp or maybe 80/tcp even then).

[2] Albeit with "within reason" weasel-words




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