My Sister Broked Teh Intarweb

SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
For the past few days, our home internet connection - a mighty 8mbps with a 10000mb per month quota - has been running like, well, crap. Major, major lag, the likes of which unknown since the time of the dialup. Like, slow enough to consider going and getting coffee every time a webpage loads. Anyway, we couldn't work out what was going on and assumed it was something wrong at the ISP's end.

As of late, my sister's been downloading a <i>lot</i> of anime. She's actually managed to fill the brand new hard disks on mum's new machine, which we've been sorta using as a fileserver. Strangely enough, it didn't occur to anyone that the two were related - until we finally checked our volume usage online to discover that my sister's efforts to download <i>the whole freaking internet</i> pushed us over the quota by about 2684mb.

So we've been throttled back to a puny 64k. Grr. Fortunately only for another three days, though.

Note to self: learn how to configure the firewall to cap traffic to\from my sister's machine :/

Comments

  • Rapier7Rapier7 Join Date: 2004-02-05 Member: 26108Members
    Ahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahha.

    Your sister can burn in hell.
  • RobertoRoberto Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14591Members, Constellation
    Modem next to the computer, router in the closet. If I start to lag, I just unplug the rest of the house.
    Anyone know comcast's dl/ul limit?
  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    Wow bandwidth limits? Get off that isp :X
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-CommunistWithAGun+Jul 14 2005, 10:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Jul 14 2005, 10:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wow bandwidth limits? Get off that isp :X <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    yup


    I honestly don't know of any american isps that have caps.

    All the ones I see are euro or canadian...
  • Mad_ManMad_Man Join Date: 2003-06-13 Member: 17359Members, Constellation
    :o I can download 10 gigs in a night for anime I cant even fathom being on a limit like that
  • MetalcatMetalcat Join Date: 2004-08-11 Member: 30528Members
    bandwith cap sux, the reason noone wanna use stofanet
  • Rapier7Rapier7 Join Date: 2004-02-05 Member: 26108Members
    Heh, I pay 5 dollars a month for subpar webhosting and I get 25 gigabytes of transfer.

    That's Europe for you.

    Do the Scandinavian countries have caps?
  • MetalcatMetalcat Join Date: 2004-08-11 Member: 30528Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Rapier7+Jul 14 2005, 10:14 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rapier7 @ Jul 14 2005, 10:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Heh, I pay 5 dollars a month for subpar webhosting and I get 25 gigabytes of transfer.

    That's Europe for you.

    Do the Scandinavian countries have caps? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    yes and no, some of the providers do some dont, generally people try to avoiud tge people that do
  • AnarkiThreeXSixAnarkiThreeXSix x_x Join Date: 2003-12-31 Member: 24894Members
    bleh, i'd die with those types of caps :|
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Roberto+Jul 14 2005, 10:02 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Roberto @ Jul 14 2005, 10:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Modem next to the computer, router in the closet. If I start to lag, I just unplug the rest of the house.
    Anyone know comcast's dl/ul limit? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    No limit for comcast.

    I should know.

    ...


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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    10000mb sounded alot bigger before I realised it's only 10gb...
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Bandwidth limits are the sux indeed. I've got a 1mbps connection with no cap, and I prefer mine to yours. Your connection is like filling a bucket with a firehose. I may only have a garden hose, but I'm filling a bag of holding.
  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Jul 14 2005, 08:31 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Jul 14 2005, 08:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Bandwidth limits are the sux indeed. I've got a 1mbps connection with no cap, and I prefer mine to yours. Your connection is like filling a bucket with a firehose. I may only have a garden hose, but I'm filling a bag of holding. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thats one of the nerdiest things I've ever heard. Marry me.
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    In the past 30 days, I've downloaded well over 25Gb worth of crap, yay for me.

    I love Comcast, sometimes.
  • MetalcatMetalcat Join Date: 2004-08-11 Member: 30528Members
    to all you who believe in what lollerfighter is saying:

    i have a 4gb uncapped
  • DubbilexDubbilex Chump Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9799Members
    I use like, 200 megabytes per month <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • TransmissionTransmission Join Date: 2003-03-12 Member: 14456Members
    My ISP claimed they were uncapped, but I got an email warning that due to "technical difficulties" in my area,I was being disconnected. Now I realized that the ISP must have been too good to be true, since it was giving the same service as mainstream providers for ~$15 less. So I called them, think that these difficulties were a euphemism for the real problem.

    Turns out my 90 GBs down and 50 GBs up in traffic for the month didn't sit well with them, and they were using a loophole in the contract to cut me off. Not wanting to lose the ISP, I asked for one more month, and the customer support guy essentially told me that as long as my uploads don't go over 10 GB, they don't care what I download. Since then I've been keeping within their hidden "cap" and no problems since.

    So even if they say something is uncapped, this isn't always true. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • AlcapwnAlcapwn &quot;War is the science of destruction&quot; - John Abbot Join Date: 2003-06-21 Member: 17590Members
    edited July 2005
    My ISP caps you if you upload too much, but you have to upload an ungodly amount of data. Heavy Gaming/Surfing wont do it, but setting up an FTP server thats heavily used for more than a week will...

    <b>edit-</b> i dont care about the cap, i almost never upload big files for hours at a time, and even if i did, i wouldnt want to step down to dsl (Where cable is almost triple the speed here)
  • StimpyStimpy Join Date: 2003-05-05 Member: 16086Members
    I have 2gigs download and 1gig upload caps per day, based on 7-day average.

    But I don't complain, it costs only 10€/month.
  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    Comcast absolutely damn rocks.

    And your sister sucks. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    I'm sure she won't do it again (and not just because we've run out of space).

    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Wow bandwidth limits? Get off that isp :X<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->We only have a quota because that's what we're paying for. We don't usually download lots and lots of stuff, and the only reason we're on 8mbit instead of 512k is because there was some new infrastructure put in (or something) and so they started offering 8mbit for what we were already paying. It's something like $60 a month (Australian), including the phone. Although even the most expensive of the home schemes has a quota ($120 for 40 gig and phone).
  • UnderDOGUnderDOG Join Date: 2003-04-05 Member: 15221Members
    hrm.... interesting.

    Anyon know how much transfer/hour it takes to play a game like NS or CSS?
  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    4mb no caps, only 20 quid ish a month. Im a happy man, if my 400Gb HD would finaly arrive....

    Thats with NTL in the UK, although if somethign goes wrong, be prepaired to talk to someone in India who doesnt understand the Scottish accent very well <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> .

    But yeh, im sure iv seen some programs around that only let you use the internet for so long, so id hazard a guess that there are ones to moniter bandwidth usage too.
  • ToboldTobold Join Date: 2003-06-16 Member: 17405Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-UnderDOG+Jul 15 2005, 07:48 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (UnderDOG @ Jul 15 2005, 07:48 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> hrm.... interesting.

    Anyon know how much transfer/hour it takes to play a game like NS or CSS? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    net_graph 3 gives you your kb/s up and down stream.
  • the_x5the_x5 the Xzianthian Join Date: 2004-03-02 Member: 27041Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-SoulSkorpion+Jul 14 2005, 10:54 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SoulSkorpion @ Jul 14 2005, 10:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> For the past few days, our home internet connection - a mighty 8mbps with a 10000mb per month quota - has been running like, well, crap. Major, major lag, the likes of which unknown since the time of the dialup. Like, slow enough to consider going and getting coffee every time a webpage loads. Anyway, we couldn't work out what was going on and assumed it was something wrong at the ISP's end...

    [...] <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    1. Take your story.
    2. Replace occurances of the word sister with roommate
    3. Replace anime with anime & porn

    Now we have nearly identical stories.
  • RoverRover blargh Join Date: 2003-09-23 Member: 21139Members
    Bah I hate this...almost all providers here (including Belgacom, the ADSL provider I'm using) have 10gb per month limit >_<...4.6Mbps ADSL is good right...right ? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • ShoeboxShoebox Join Date: 2004-11-15 Member: 32817Members
    holy hell. it would take me like years to download the things you guys do. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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