I also don't see a data limit. I thought we were talking about data limited plans?
E.g. My ISP has a big number in GB's, not a big number in Mbps.

There is also a 300GB data cap, which is mentioned nowhere except the fine print of the (paper) booklet accompanying the connection kit.

In my area enforcement of the data cap is however suspended indefinitely, at least in part because there was quite an outcry.

Over here in Argentina residential connections aren't capped at all (which saddens me how in the US that seems to be common). The only issue is the transfer speed, but I found out that it isn't hard throttling but literally the ISP servers being exhausted (since I have managed many times to go over the advertised limit). Also there's the catch that many times the server on the other end will cap you anyway, so in practice to make full use of the bandwidth you'd have to open multiple connections instead.

Mobile is a whole different issue. You spend in four days the amount of money you'd pay per month for a residential connection (or even as fast as two, depending on the situation). Yikes. But there are fixed rate data plans which are more expensive than the normal ones but give you much more generous caps (or none altogether), so that's something I guess.

netflix in max quality is bursting to 100MB/s

That's 838Gbps!? Do you have a 1Gbps connection?

How the heck did you get over 8500 bits per byte? o_O

100Mb/sec = ~13 megabits per second

100Mb/sec = ~13 megabits per second

Surely that latter quantity should be 'megabytes'?

Yes. I have a 10GB limit on my Verizon cellphone and so I almost never uses it for fear of using it all up and not having it when I need it

I have a 2Gb limit on my cell plan, and I rarely use up more than 50% of it. Unless you're streaming video on your phone a lot, you shouldn't be going through anywhere near 10Gb a month.

Why shouldn't I be able to stream video on my phone? It's 2015, not 2005. Again, I will reiterate: what is the point of a 100Mbit/s wireless connection if you hit a data cap in 10 minutes. What is Verizon going to do if they upgrade to LTE-A? That's up to 1Gbit/s. What's the point of a 1Gbit/s wireless connection if you hit the data cap in 1 minute?

The point may be extra cash from people going over the limit.

netflix in max quality is bursting to 100MB/s

That's 838Mbps!? Do you have a 1Gbps connection?

How the heck did you get over 8500 bits per byte? o_O

100MBps = 102400KBps = 104857600Bps
= 838860800bps = 838860.8Kbps = 838.8608Mbps

I typed 838Gbps originall, but i meant 838Mbps.

100MBps = 102400KBps

Shouldn't that be 100MiB/s?

100MBps = 102400KBps

Shouldn't that be 100MiB/s?

I was always under the impression that when talking about network speeds it is implied that the prefixes are taken as SI units.

100MBps = 102400KBps

Shouldn't that be 100MiB/s? :wink:

I was always under the impression that when talking about network speeds it is implied that the prefixes are taken as SI units.

MB is a vague unit, but you can see from the working that it's MiB yes, which is the most common usage for MB.
Mb is in decimal (1000's, not 1024's) though, as is convention with networking.