alt Hacker NewsWhat? You are capped by bandwidth and time is its own limit. You are capped at the max bandwidth in your service contract multiplied by the length of the contract. A bandwidth cap has an implied data cap
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organsnyder • yesterday at 4:31 PM
Of course. You're always capped by rate. But you're not capped by the cumulative amount (other than as a function of rate and time).
The point is that you have access to a 100Mb/s connection, and your access to that connection is unlimited. It doesn't become a 10Mb/s connection at some point, and your access isn't cut off - there are no limits on your access.
Of course there are practical limits as you can't make your 100Mb/s connection into a gigabit one (ignoring that you can buy burstable in a datacenter, etc, etc).
Where unlimited falls down is when it refers to a endlessly consumable resource, like storage.