How to know whether my ISP have hidden monthly cap?

[sam1275tom]

Hi.
Many ISPs have hidden monthly cap as I read, that is, even if you are on a "unlimited" plan, many will throttle or warning you if you reach too much traffic. But I cannot find information about my certain ISP, nobody are even mention this in my country, I plan to donate bandwidth to torrent, I2P(tor is banned in my area), mirrors, and full node of bitcorn, but I want to make sure I don't have to worry about the cap, how can I look for the info?
Thanks.

 

[blobbyblarker]

If i were you i would start downloading big files and see if your internet gets slower after a period of time (make sure to make a chart of it or something) then email them about it and see what they have to say. Also read over you're contract if you got one and read over all the the ISP policies

 

[sam1275tom]

If i were you i would start downloading big files and see if your internet gets slower after a period of time (make sure to make a chart of it or something) then email them about it and see what they have to say. Also read over you're contract if you got one and read over all the the ISP policies

Thank you, I tried downloaded tenth of GB datas and the network still go well, but the monthly cap usually much larger than this, and I didn't see anywhere said this in the contract...
Some more details:
I have a enterprise router and I can monitor everything on my network, so I can clearly see how many traffic I got;
I current living in a not-good country, I cannot believe the contract here, and the government is shit;
However I'm using the best ISP here, the speed is constant 125% I bought, however the upload is 10% download speed, only business fiber is equal upload, but too expensive.

 

[bill001g]

They may not have a cap but it is normally spelled out if they do. They would run into huge legal issues...at least in many countries... if they had policies on a contract and did not spell them out.

What you are more likely to encounter is the acceptable use policy. In many cases this is where they can hide vague restrictions. This is the general area where they say you can not host services or run things like torrent. Torrent tends to be the one that gets you in trouble the fastest. You have to be really careful running torrent if the material you are hosting has copyright issues. Many ISP rather than look like the bad guy themselves by saying no torrent will work with the RIAA and assist them in sending you legal papers to pay up or else. That way they get torrent limited and can blame someone else.

 

[sam1275tom]

They may not have a cap but it is normally spelled out if they do. They would run into huge legal issues...at least in many countries... if they had policies on a contract and did not spell them out.

What you are more likely to encounter is the acceptable use policy. In many cases this is where they can hide vague restrictions. This is the general area where they say you can not host services or run things like torrent. Torrent tends to be the one that gets you in trouble the fastest. You have to be really careful running torrent if the material you are hosting has copyright issues. Many ISP rather than look like the bad guy themselves by saying no torrent will work with the RIAA and assist them in sending you legal papers to pay up or else. That way they get torrent limited and can blame someone else.

Thank you! I plan to share only legal torrent only, but maybe I cannot do I2P because it may encounter some illegal traffic and I cannot make sure it's completely safe...
BTW, I cannot find any use policy online, just a contract which limit 4 computer login the same account, nothing more.
So... in the worst occasion, I still won't get in jail if I just doing legal things and congest my own internet, right?

 

[bill001g]

They may not have a cap but it is normally spelled out if they do. They would run into huge legal issues...at least in many countries... if they had policies on a contract and did not spell them out.

What you are more likely to encounter is the acceptable use policy. In many cases this is where they can hide vague restrictions. This is the general area where they say you can not host services or run things like torrent. Torrent tends to be the one that gets you in trouble the fastest. You have to be really careful running torrent if the material you are hosting has copyright issues. Many ISP rather than look like the bad guy themselves by saying no torrent will work with the RIAA and assist them in sending you legal papers to pay up or else. That way they get torrent limited and can blame someone else.

Thank you! I plan to share only legal torrent only, but maybe I cannot do I2P because it may encounter some illegal traffic and I cannot make sure it's completely safe...
BTW, I cannot find any use policy online, just a contract which limit 4 computer login the same account, nothing more.
So... in the worst occasion, I still won't get in jail if I just doing legal things and congest my own internet, right?

It is almost always non criminal court stuff. You get sued for money lawyers representing the owners of content. Unless you were extremely excessive police type organizations have better things to do.