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Why are ISP so terrified to say that you only get a fixed limit of bandwidth? Can you not survive in this business unless you lie and say "unlimited?" It seems we all know that unlimited actually means "some unknown number of Gb before you get a warning letter."

Server monitoring seems so easy. If you're running a serious server-based business then your upload is going to be way out of whack with download bandwidth. Why not just limit your upload traffic and let people do whatever they want?

I'd rather know what my limit was and work with it than to have my ISP tell me I have "unlimited" bandwidth, but then secretly limit or throttle me.



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