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Comment by BrentOzar | Hacker News Reader

"when you share your Bridge’s connection with Sidewalk, total monthly data used by Sidewalk, per account, is capped at 500MB"

Given that it's US-only, where most internet plans have pretty high caps, it's hard for me to get upset about this. I would have expected my Echoes alone to use more than that during normal monthly operation, playing music, fetching news, etc.

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I’d expect data caps to be some of the worst in the US. Poorer countries had their internet infrastructure put in much more recently. That said, I also suspect you can’t just look at mean (average) speed to get a feel for that.

Data caps have little to do with infrastructure as demonstrated this the past year.

Most countries don't have the concept of caps at all except for cellular connections(for obvious reasons)

I have unlimited 5G for £25pm.

My main concern with sharing like this isn't the bandwidth usage, but what happens when someone abuses the connection (downloading/sharing child porn as an example).

I don't want anything to do with it if there's even the slightest chance I'd end up on the hook for someone else's crimes.

My understanding is that you aren’t sharing a general connection to the internet, you’re specifically letting Amazon devices tunnel some data back to Amazon’s parent servers. You’d also likely have a pretty good case against Amazon if using their product as directed caused your trouble with the po po

Ah right, so this is more of service channel that Amazon devices can use to connect Amazon HQ? That's not so bad then, but the headline is pretty click-baity.

Besides the 500MB per month data cap it is also limited to 80kbs.

Or run a spam bot from your IP and get you in trouble with Google.

Or get your ip blackholed on AWS

My concern is less illegal and more about device manufacturers using this to bypass any internet settings I choose (eg to block ads and trackers).

Per there account or per mine? I can rotate MAC address pretty easily

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