They offer "unlimited" where I live, not "unlimited*".

I mean, in this universe we live in everything is limited somehow.

I do wish it was a word that had to be completely dropped from marketing/adverting.

For example there is not unlimited storage, hell the visible universe has a storage limit. There is not unlimited upload and download speed, and what if when you start using more space they started exponentially slowing the speed you could access the storage? Unlimited CPU time in processing your request? Unlimited execution slots to process your request? Unlimited queue size when processing your requests.

Hence everything turns into the mess of assumptions.

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embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> I mean, in this universe we live in everything is limited somehow.

Yes, indeed, most relevant in this case probably "time" and "bandwidth", put together, even if you saturate the line for a month, they won't throttle you, so for all intents and purposes, the "data cap" is unlimited (or more precise; there is no data cap).

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mcmcmc 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What? 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

	▲	organsnyder 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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).