An anonymous reader writes “A California user of Verizon’s FiOS fiber-optic internet service put his unlimited data plan to the test. Over the month of March, he totaled over 77 terabytes of internet traffic, which finally prompted a call from a Verizon employee to see what he was doing. The user had switched to a 300Mbps/65Mbps plan in January, and averaged 50 terabytes of traffic per month afterward. ‘An IT professional who manages a test lab for an Internet storage company, [the user] has been providing friends and family a personal VPN, video streaming, and peer-to-peer file service—running a rack of seven servers with 209TB of raw storage in his house.’ The Verizon employee who contacted him said he was violating the service agreement. “Basically he said that my bandwidth usage was excessive (like 30,000 percent higher than their average customer),” [the user] said. ‘[He] wanted to know WTF I was doing. I told him I have a full rack and run servers, and then he said, “Well, that’s against our ToS.” And he said I would need to switch to the business service or I would be disconnected in July. It wasn’t a super long call.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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FiOS User Finds Limit of ‘Unlimited’ Data Plan: 77 TB/Month