That's kind of my point, ISPs use that max speed in their advertising when it isn't really relevant, especially if it hits your cap in a minute or two.

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bscphil an hour ago | parent [-]

It is relevant, though. I have 1.2 Gbps down with a 2 TB monthly cap. I've never hit the monthly cap even once, but by your standard I have "1.2 Gbps down for 3 hours, 42 minutes".

But that doesn't change the reality that it matters to me that a 20 GB video that a friend took at my wedding downloads in just 2 minutes rather than the ~30 minutes it would take if I had a 100 Mbps connection.

	▲	eterm 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Right, but 3+ hours of top speed per month is a lot, 80 seconds isn't. Your cap is over 150 times that equivalent. If you had an 80 second hard cap, you couldn't even download that 20GB video.