[Snap] Does snap have unmetered times at night? I thought I read it somewhere but now I can't find.

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#1019814 7-Apr-2014 10:37

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jnimmo: Games would usually come down through Akamai or similar CDN anyway wouldn't they, thus usually be zero-rated? I haven't been over 85GB in the last year and we are always streaming Netflix etc. Not on the torrents though :)

don't think Snap zero-rates akamai.

Perhaps not by policy or guaranteed, but I certainly download lots from Microsoft VLSC (DVD ISOs etc) which comes through Akamai and don't get charged for it

its a bit give a take.

snap seem to not charge if its inside of their network. no telling if your pulling from a akamai server outside of their network though.

i personally dont manage my downloads to be in offpeak very often, i pay for enough data regardless of the situation (and actually my usage has gone down ALOT over the last few months..)

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#1020009 7-Apr-2014 14:29

Some have reported Snap -> Snap customers is unmetered, But im sure ive used some when someone pulled data from my web server.

I stopped monitoring internal web usage on the network/per PC since we never approached our 200gb+ limit.

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#1020010 7-Apr-2014 14:34

eXDee: Some have reported Snap -> Snap customers is unmetered, But im sure ive used some when someone pulled data from my web server.

I stopped monitoring internal web usage on the network/per PC since we never approached our 200gb+ limit.

maybe its only within the same BRAS?

would be interesting to know none the less.

i have had some data unmetered to a few ftp servers in china that i was dumping, no way was it cached or anything, certainly found it a nice surprise...

long as you only expect nighttimes to be unmetered, since thats clearly stated, anything else is a bonus!

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#1020015 7-Apr-2014 14:42

cjmchch: Haven't updated a single game yet.

28 Mar 2014 - 28 Apr 2014 Lightwave Home Extreme Unlimited 886.07 GB
28 Feb 2014 - 28 Mar 2014 Lightwave Home Extreme Unlimited 941.1 GB
31 Jan 2014 - 28 Feb 2014 Lightwave Home Extreme Unlimited 1186.57 GB

wow cjmchch, how big is yah fileserver? Or is that a whole lotta netflix/streaming?

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#1020120 7-Apr-2014 18:04

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cjmchch: Haven't updated a single game yet.

28 Mar 2014 - 28 Apr 2014 Lightwave Home Extreme Unlimited 886.07 GB
28 Feb 2014 - 28 Mar 2014 Lightwave Home Extreme Unlimited 941.1 GB
31 Jan 2014 - 28 Feb 2014 Lightwave Home Extreme Unlimited 1186.57 GB

wow cjmchch, how big is yah fileserver? Or is that a whole lotta netflix/streaming?

I don't netflix, and very little streaming of Sky - traffic is split probably 50/50 with a total of 5TB being backed up to Oz in process. I'll fill a couple 64Gb CF cards full of photos and video easily in a day which I then backup off shore, so unlimited is a perfect fit for me.

Size of my server - not quite a server but my desktop tops out at 12Tb currently.

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#1020419 8-Apr-2014 09:59

Wow crazy stuff, guessing you're something along the lines of a photographer?

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#1020644 8-Apr-2014 13:59

Distorter: Wow crazy stuff, guessing you're something along the lines of a photographer?

I take the occasional photo :)

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