OCN to institute a daily upload limit

If you get your internet from OCN, you’ll soon have to watch your internet usage. Ars Technica reports that they will be capping daily uploads for their customers:

Bandwidth caps are coming to Japan, but not in the way to which North Americans are accustomed. OCN, operated by NTT Communications, has decided to impose a daily upload limit beginning on August 1. The limit? 30GB per day. Upstream.

According to the company, the limit is being implemented to address a “small number” of users who apparently upload far more than that on a day-to-day basis by running servers for file-sharing. Customers will get a warning upon first violation, NTT spokesperson Tei Gordon told IDG News Service today, but could be disconnected for repeat offenses.

It may sound like a ridiculously high limit to those of you reading this in countries like Australia and the United States, but here in Japan, it’s not impossible for someone sharing a few torrent files to upload 30 gigabytes of data in a single day.