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1Gbps port given on 100Mbps unmetered plan, what could happen?
This was a question I met couple months ago. I have sort of a grandfather plan, given 100Mbps unmetered traffic with a discounted price.
Soon I noticed that I'm given a 1Gbps port, and in the billing panel I read my plan as 1Gbps 20TB. With 1Gbps port I can easily pushing 90MB/s out or in, I tried.
So before I come to LowEndHelpDesk, I sent a ticket to them asking what exactly plan am I on. I was told that I'm on 100Mbps unmetered and if I want to upgrade downgrade to 20TB@1G I'd have to pay more, all the way up to the non-discounted, retail price, despite the fact that upgrading from 20TB@1G to 100Mbps@un is even more expensive than that. As long as I "do not exceed 100Mbps unmetered" I will not be billed for extra charges.
Basically when I keep asking for confirmation in tickets they just reply with "we can upgrade if you pay more" and "if you are not satisfied we could cancel your server" etc, useless answers.
My usage is generally 200GB/month but sometimes I could push to 1Gbps for a very short period (half a minute or so).
Do I have to worry about that? What bad things could happen?
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Keep an eye out with SNMP monitoring if you get close to the 100Mbps unmetered limit
I generally use <1% of 33TB, but the "100Mbps" makes me worrying about the peak speed that I could potentially push to.
If you're really worried, this will fix your problem
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-change-the-speed-and-duplex-settings-of-an-ethernet-card/
But, I sincerely doubt they have proper bandwidth accounting in place if they can't get your limit set correctly. It's probably based on pushed/received traffic.
Check you have remote reboot first, the switch might be set to 1000mbps and mismatched port speeds are not nice
I'm sure you will be fine at 1Gbps as long as you stick to 30TB, I've never been suspended on my WSI server for using gigabit to download torrents - but upload is limited using tc.
Most routers negotiate port speed with the client, as long as you stick to 10/100/1000, you will be fine.
Thanks guys, I have some confidence now
Yeah, don't worry about it too much. It doesn't seem they have any real way to monitor it correctly if they can't seem to understand the concern you have. So they probably just upgraded everything to a 1gb port but the limits aren't set correctly
Well something could go wrong and apparently you'll receive crappy support...
You also need to watch incoming and outgoing, unless incoming is free (not rare but not common either).
Yea but I don't use much traffic, less than 1% of 33TB, in+out combined. Just have to hope they don't screw me up.
Smells like the oak tower/wsi/ds/etc
It's "etc".
I bet you are still in the oak tower or under wsi staff
No. As I said, I'm with "etc".
Quite funny