Bandwidth limit

I believe so. But if you routinely reach the limit, you can open a support ticket and have the limit raised. Also, I don't think Linode limits incoming bandwidth.

Yeah, they're reasonable about raising it when needed, although they don't do it willy-nilly. You need to demonstrate you're consistently hitting the limit if you want a permanent increase

I've twice requested limit increases. Once, I was migrating between two linodes, and wanted faster transfers over the private network for the migration. They raised the limit temporarily from 50 Mbps to 150 Mbps, and then I let them know when I was done so I could get it dropped back down (I like the limit, helps protect me from liability).

The second case was when I got a 60 Mbps internet connection at home, and wanted to use a VPN that could saturate that. I filed a ticket and had the limit permanently increased from 50 to 60, which was allowed even though I don't often hit the limit because it was such a small increase.

@Guspaz:

…I got a 60 Mbps internet connection at home…

Wow- just wow.

@Guspaz:

…I got a 60 Mbps internet connection at home…
@Guspaz:

…Location: Montreal, QC
They have 60M home internet connections in Quebec that you can actually saturate? Here in Ontario, TekSavvy just offered to waive activation fees if I upgrade from 6M to 16M, and I thought that was a big deal.

I've got a few things going, all from Teksavvy:

1) A 60 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up cable line. I was the guinea pig for one of if not the first cable install (they launched in Quebec before Ontario), so this was the test line. They still don't sell 60 megs, so this line is sitting around waiting for them to ask me to do testing or whatever. I still sometimes use it when I'm having problems with the DSL, or need to download something really fast. My expectation is that they'll cancel it once they finally offer 60 meg service.

2) A 50 Mbps down, 14 Mbps up VDSL2 bundle. This is comprised of two 25/7 VDSL2 connections bonded together with MLPPP (virtual layer 2 bonding), but acts as a single logical connection as far as anything past PPP daemon can tell.

I'm not paying anything for the cable line, and I have a discount on the DSL stuff for the work we've done on MLPPP stuff, but I'll probably be cancelling one of my VDSL2 connections at some point. My monthly internet bill is just too damned high, even with discounts.

So I've got an aggregate of 110 Mbps down, 17 Mbps up, coming into my apartment… I'm tempted to try using Caneris' asymmetrical bonding to get this all into one logical bundle, at least once before I cancel or lose some of this stuff, just to be able to produce a speed test showing me pulling over 100Mbps down in my apartment :P

My ISP offers 100Mbps/5Mbps for residential users and I'm in the Caribbean… :P