Comments for blog.limedaley.com/post/remote-access

Comment #2390

2008-02-25T14:22:54Z

It is pretty annoying that companies can use the word "unlimited" when they don't mean it in any sense of the word.

I was just talking to a guy at church about the cheapo web hosting plans - that he had figured he would go with 1and1 instead of me, since their bandwidth is so cheap. But, he missed the fine print where it says that although he signed up for a 1 TB/month plan, if he uses more than what the average customer does, they reserve the right to terminate his plan. Of course, the "average" customer doesn't use very much, so they can effectively terminate you any time they want. I signed up for an account as well, because I thought it might be a good way to get some cheaper bandwidth, but I got an email from their abuse department saying I was using too much cpu and bandwidth, and my account would be terminated (with no refund) if I didn't stop. I wasn't using the machine excessively, in my opinion, but I guess you get what you pay for.

Comment #2389

2008-02-25T14:19:08Z

Yeah, Verizon and AT&T have the 5GB cap, Sprint doesn't, but of course, the Sprint network is the smallest, so not really that useful outside of big highways and cities.

I don't know how much I'll care about the cap, probably some days will be large, but probably a Maggie P trip would be the largest number of days in a row, and I am unlikely to do too much work from the Maggie P...

Verizon's "cap" is afteryou hit 5GB, it slows down your connection to 200KB for the rest of the month. The sales guy thought that if you hit the limit a couple months in a row, something might happen, but he wasn't sure what.

AT&T says they can limit or terminate your connection if you don't sign up for their 5GB overage plan. I don't see the plan listed on their site, so I don't know what it costs.

Comment #2388

2008-02-24T02:22:04Z

Welcome to air-card World. I love my ATT one - get it for $57/mo on the IBM discount plan. HOWEVER, they have just changed the terms - and they threaten to drop you if you use over 5 gig in a month. So far my highest month has been a half gig -- but I do not use it all day, but about 2 hours per day from the hotel and maybe another hour or so when away from a LAN line when at a client site.

It works at the Maggie P too!

But, check that fine print to see the limit on "unlimited."