Uploading Large Quantities of Files (~500GB) on Home ISP

jewii

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Hi,

I'm planning on uploading ~500GB of files in a encrypted container through a SSL Channel via my personal ISP Virgin.

I'm obviously going to get hit traffic management but just wondering if there will be any other consequences I should be cautious about such as termination of contract....

Wondered if anyone else has had trouble with their ISP with heavy usage/uploading?

I'm on their fastest package is that would help?
 
No. Virgin don't care what you do with your internet as long as it isn't affecting other customers (which is why they introduced the capping).

I do 4-5TB a month and my ISP has never said anything, nor do I expect them to. If they're going to advertise it as unlimited, I'm going to treat it as such.
 
Aside from on capped/budget packages I've never had any problems with one off large download/uploads - they might (depending on ISP, etc.) be less happy about it if its a regular thing maybe.
 
Cadbury said:
No. Virgin don't care what you do with your internet as long as it isn't affecting other customers (which is why they introduced the capping).

I do 4-5TB a month and my ISP has never said anything, nor do I expect them to. If they're going to advertise it as unlimited, I'm going to treat it as such.
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If you sell as unlimited, im gonna use it that way
 
jewii said:
Wondered if anyone else has had trouble with their ISP with heavy usage/uploading?
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It might help to raise a support ticket to let them know this will be a one-off.

I also suggest you break it down into chunks that happen overnight or while you are out so your normal browsing is not affected.
 
VM has been known to send letters to heavy users. You should be able to get away with 500GB per month.
 
Thanks guys!

Wasn't sure if the ISP would rise an eyebrow for uploading large quantities of encrypted data but I guess not.

Just need to schedule it properly, it sucks my housemate uses his PC all night (sleeps at 8am). Going to get heavily traffic managed in the day time :(
 
Heck I put through that much upstream just to my VPS and owncloud, never mind torrenting, linux patches (yes really) and so on in addition. VM here too. Don't worry about it. As above if you're in a heavily congested area I'd personally schedule the uploads to occur between midnight and 6am if they're not time critical. You could rar and PAR the dataset into chunks if needs to be achieve this seamlessly.
 
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