My Sister Broked Teh Intarweb
SoulSkorpion
Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
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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 :/
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 :/
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Your sister can burn in hell.
Anyone know comcast's dl/ul limit?
yup
I honestly don't know of any american isps that have caps.
All the ones I see are euro or canadian...
That's Europe for you.
Do the Scandinavian countries have caps?
That's Europe for you.
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yes and no, some of the providers do some dont, generally people try to avoiud tge people that do
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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Thats one of the nerdiest things I've ever heard. Marry me.
I love Comcast, sometimes.
i have a 4gb uncapped
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-->
<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)
But I don't complain, it costs only 10€/month.
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-->
<!--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).
Anyon know how much transfer/hour it takes to play a game like NS or CSS?
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.
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.
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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.