As the title says I am curious to know if PIA has a data cap of any kind on its VPN. I ask because I have pushed about 4.5TB of data over it so far this month
Nope, they really don’t. Your ISP is more likely to care than any VPN company as for all intents and purposes They’re not paying for data. (They do tend to technically pay for data but the price is EXTREMELY low.)
If any VPN provider ever says you’re using too much bandwidth, then that means they know how much bandwidth you used, which means that they’re logging your traffic.
VPN providers can’t care, because if they’re doing it right, they don’t have the data necessary to let them care.
I’ve been a customer and heavy downloader for a couple of years and never hit any kind of cap.
Been a customer for a few years, used ungodly amounts of data (dozens of TB) at times. If there’s a cap, I’ve never reached it yet. I’m far more worried about my ISP (who thankfully also doesn’t seem to care) than I am of PIA.
I have crossed 6TB in the last 25 days. They have never fussed at me and that is a slow month.
What are those of you guys pushing multiple terabytes actually downloading?!
I’ve done 18 TB in a month … averaging 5 TB per month. No issues.
Just 4.5TB? Amateurs, I’ve been pushing 30TB-40TB on average for the last 8 months, no one complained so far.
I’ve been using with my neighbors internet for several weeks with it and haven’t heard them screaming through that walls yet.
Nope…
Last month: 16TB up/14TB down.
At PIA’s scale, they pay for bandwidth, not bytes transferred.
Ha! Here I was thinking that I’d get in trouble for using almost 1tb…geez…
Just curious, how do you guys get so much traffic?
Uh, Linux distros.
…honest
Porn… No I am kidding the honest answer is that I normally only average about 2Tb of data usage per month that comes from Streaming, downloading large game files from Steam, backing up stuff to the cloud, security camera footage etc. However, I have recently purchased 48Tb of usable storage for my NAS and am in the process of filling that up currently which is why there is a huge spike in my usage.
LOL. This reminds me of one of those conversations-on-rails in video games, where you walk up to a fence to try and sell something you pickpocketed, and the only possible way he won’t sell to you is if you choose the dialog option that says something like, “These items you have for sale wouldn’t happen to be ILLEGAL, would they?!”
Can’t disagree with amateur at a mere 6TB, back when I had 5Mbps DSL I frequently crossed 1TB, that is pro level…
Well I know for a fact that that kind of usage would have gotten me banned with my old ISP as they considered excessive usage for a residential account to be about 10TB.
Yeah but that means you’re downloading every movie ever made. Three times over!