So last night, my ISP kicked me off the internet for the rest of the day. Of this, there is little doubt, because some time after midnight, service resumed.
I felt compelled to consume as much of my remaining monthly quota as possible, and I think they caught on. It wouldn’t surprise me if others were attempting the very same thing. I was approaching 20 GB of total traffic when things just ground to a halt. I rebooted my router, I power cycled my modem. No dice.
Occasionally, there would be a burst of speed so I could load the rare web page, but for the most part I was pretty much being denied service. If you squint really hard, you could call it throttling.
Lesson learned: start the spree in advance, and limit to 15 GB days to be on the safe side.
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I feel the same compulsion to use as much of my bandwidth as possible towards the end of the month. Thanks for the stress testing, it’ll serve as a reference for me now.