Poll: Do you have an internet cap?
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Here I was thinking that every internet connection had some form of restriction in place.
DAMN YOU IRELAND!!!!
My cap is 40GB which is acceptable, I'd like more though.
DAMN YOU IRELAND!!!!
My cap is 40GB which is acceptable, I'd like more though.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe that there was a study that showed that the internet speed in South Africa is slower than simply saving the file on a USB stick and sending it using courier pigeons. Of course, that's distance and file size dependant, but the point of the study is to show that the internet is insanely slow therebrandon237 said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8248056.stm
To have insanely slow internet and a cap. My condolences. We are indeed privileged here in North America.
Yes. It's starts at about 3 gigs, but I can top it up. I usually use about 16-17 gigs a month.
It's actually cheaper to get uncapped, but my ma doesn't want to go through the trouble of cancelling the internet package we've got now.
There need to be more of us here.
It's actually cheaper to get uncapped, but my ma doesn't want to go through the trouble of cancelling the internet package we've got now.
In the last week I've found more South Africans here than in my year and a bit at the Escapist (which amounts to 4 whole people!).brandon237 said:
There need to be more of us here.
Yup, the test happened in my own city, it was carrier pigeon with a full memory stick tied to its leg vs. internet sending same number of gigs as memory stick or something like that. The internet company was confident of their chances, yet they lost badly. I actually like to reference that story when discussing my crap internet.Pingieking said:If I'm not mistaken, I believe that there was a study that showed that the internet speed in South Africa is slower than simply saving the file on a USB stick and sending it using courier pigeons. Of course, that's distance and file size dependant, but the point of the study is to show that the internet is insanely slow therebrandon237 said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8248056.stm
To have insanely slow internet and a cap. My condolences. We are indeed privileged here in North America.
I can't access Firefox for about 4 hours in the middle of the night for some reason. Rest of the time it's just golden. So eah, I'ma say the ISP is unlimited, but somewhere in my configuration, someone set it up to be blocked for 4 hours.
Unlimited pretty much a standard in my country if you want to compete with Virgin/BT/Blueyonder I get a decent speed supposedly 20mbps but it's closer to 9 at most lags now and then but rarley ever drops and customer service is so-so atleast the callcentre is in Britain rather than India.
They do, for the most part. The majority of "unlimited" US plans actually have fuzzy limits that they won't tell you about and won't publish, but might make vague reference to in the fine print. Then they just throttle you silently or else drop you for exceeding the fuzzy limit as and when they need to reduce congestion and keep up with their oversell.hey_iknowyou said:
The reality is that internet bandwidth is a finite resource. The ISPs that actually tell you what the usage limits are, by and large, more customer friendly and above-board than those who are trying to sucker sell you with the word "unlimited". Not 100%, of course, but I would be entertained to see those people out there who think they have true unlimited internet try to actually set up a max-bandwidth always-on file transfer for a month or so and see how long it takes for their ISPs to come knocking...
Australia does, but that'd because all of our data has to come from other continents, so almost every ISP has limits - either charging usage over, or slowing speed over. Problem is, most customers whinge that it's backwards and the ISPs fault, not seeming to understand that the ISPs have to pay a fortune to get the data across fucking oceans from the US, Asia and Europe, which degrades speed and increases cost. Other continents can get away with unlimited caps and faster speeds because they don't have to pay data suppliers in other continents.Pingieking said:
For the record, I'm with a small local ISP called Adam, and pay $69 per month for 150 GB (50 ul, 50 dl and an extra 50 offpeak). Slowed over that.
My plan (AT&T, $34 a month for 5-meg) has a built-in meter. Starting at 80GB they charge a buck a GB for overusage.
Not that I've ever come within a country mile of downloading 80GB in a month! Most I ever used was 50, and that was thanks to a Steam holiday sale binge.
Not that I've ever come within a country mile of downloading 80GB in a month! Most I ever used was 50, and that was thanks to a Steam holiday sale binge.
A guy earlier mentioned downloading around 1600GB in a single month, I can only assume if that is true then he really does have no restrictions whatsoever though. Up until reading this post I would have thought the same as you though.nezroy said:
Once, back when AOL was the whole internet, my mother used the parental controls to give me exactly thirty-four minutes of instant gratification. It occurred between 2:17 and 2:51 pm.
The whole thing about it was that she would never tell me when it began, so I had to keep attempting to log on to figure it out. By the time I did, thirty-four minutes later it kicked me off, I swear I nearly cried.
It was worse because she only did it to be a dick. When I was in high school, she used to unplug the modem and hide it around the house. She could've taken it to work or put it in her locked file cabinet, but she HID it--she must not have wanted me to avoid the internet that badly if a little diligence was all it took to overcome the restriction.
Then again, maybe the point of hiding it was to personally witness what lengths I would go to to get it back.
EDIT: No limits now--because I pay my own internet bill.
The whole thing about it was that she would never tell me when it began, so I had to keep attempting to log on to figure it out. By the time I did, thirty-four minutes later it kicked me off, I swear I nearly cried.
It was worse because she only did it to be a dick. When I was in high school, she used to unplug the modem and hide it around the house. She could've taken it to work or put it in her locked file cabinet, but she HID it--she must not have wanted me to avoid the internet that badly if a little diligence was all it took to overcome the restriction.
Then again, maybe the point of hiding it was to personally witness what lengths I would go to to get it back.
EDIT: No limits now--because I pay my own internet bill.