Is there a fair usage policy on Excitel Broadband?

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Already crossed 1TB mark, waiting to see how it goes from here
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converted this into a question thread to keep track of when users get hit with the warning. though from the looks of it, excitel does not give warning and just suspend the account? or users are able to continue services?
 
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@MadAxe nothing someone here complained of blocking of account as he crossed 150 or 200 gb in a single day
 

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Around 2 weeks ago I did a 400GB download and 1.2TB upload together within a span of 24 hours. No warnings or disconnections.
I did have my VPN on though.
I'm guessing those who have been hit with a warning got it for false negatives on commercial activity (which is a possibility with torrents (multiple upstream downstream connections, huge data transfers)), or if they were actually engaging in one.
 
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@john_dud Here is a software (to stress test your internet continuously. Do not use the TCP+UDP+Ping stress-test continuously. I did that and my ISP was throttling me after some 3-4 minutes, eventually pausing down my entire connection within 5 minutes. My internet would work 2-3 minutes after I stopped stressing it. Might be the automatic DDoS mitigation at my ISP; nothing really uses download and upload over TCP and UDP simultaneously for 3-4 minutes. Use TCP only + ping to stress your connection for as long as you want.


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(Continuous internet speed test tool)
 
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Finally got the account suspended at about 5 TB+. Sending email to get it reactivated but we know for sure now that excitel has a FUP of around 5 TB or so and they're falsely advertising it as unlimited. The cse told me to drop an email then a guy will come and inspect the premises for "commercial usage" and then the connection will be reactivated. I told him that you can actually cross 2 TB+ on a 300Mbit connection in 24 hours. They don't warn people is the worst part of it all.
 
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