One of our own in the Guardian.

Sun Jul 14 08:16:33 UTC 2013

On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Mark Seiden <mis at seiden.com> wrote:
> and here i am in the icann-selected hotel for the icann conference, and they gave us a total of 500MB of metered usage.  

Trust me, the 500MB limit (per day, and resettable if you go down to the front desk and request more) is the least of your worries:

% ping trantor.virtualized.org
....
Request timeout for icmp_seq 179
Request timeout for icmp_seq 180
Request timeout for icmp_seq 181
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=104 ttl=40 time=78594.936 ms
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=119037.553 ms
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=80 ttl=40 time=103268.363 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=80 ttl=40 time=103690.981 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=120196.719 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=120333.246 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=85 ttl=40 time=99395.502 ms
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=105 ttl=40 time=79406.728 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 186
64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=93 ttl=40 time=94822.040 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 188
Request timeout for icmp_seq 189
...

Regards,
-drc