Internet economics 101: "bandwidth hogs" considered harmless

What on Earth are you doing that needs 200MB? My connection is one eightieth of that, 100Mb/s, and is perfectly adequate. Once when our business ISP made a mistake, our web server got 200MB/s for a day - more than the gigabit Ethernet could cope with - and I amused myself downloading every resource we could possibly want into our server. I had an entire RAID volume filled by lunchtime, thanks to the bandwidth generosity of IBM and SUN, before they cottoned on.

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