How much do you Download ?

Well ?
Do you usually get curses from your family members about downloading and causing the entire household to be capped ? I do...
I've put what i think is reasonable amounts, If you're a huge terabyte downloader..good luck.
Currently I'm on a 150 GB a month plan, because i was sick of being capped.

 

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I'm on an Uncapped 10-20Mbit line however even though there is no overall cap it doesn't stop the service provider fobbing myself and others off with the 'throttling' contention ratio, who when of course question are likely to try and make out that a persons 'technical limitations' is probably responsible like a misconfigured IP address, router or computer and therefore the limited bandwidth is that persons own doing (swollocks)

There is also another point that occurs in a persons transfer of data that only the real geeks and conspiracy buff's concern themselves about and thats the Echelon project (or some such similar 'real' project). Having governments filter internet traffic for particular keywords means processing information at a set speed, If a company says they will up the output to 20Mbit or higher then the filter processing has to be able to deal with that speed, otherwise it would throttle it based upon available processing power and backbone speed. In essence, it's the reason why the internet crawls along far slower than it should.

As for amount downloaded, depends on if I'm downloading new demo's over XBOX live or updates, addon's, OS packages like the latest BSD etc.

 

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i have a 12gb cap on my internet(i try to stay 1 or 2 under it just in case), but at least i get 768k/128k(supposedly 2mbit/512k) speeds. the only options other than dialup(if you can get that with the dodgy phone lines) are wireless and satellite, and not being able to afford $2000 for a satellite install i just have to make do with the 120km wireless connection

 

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Yeah, dude, My downloads always reach above 30, but if you count off peak, my downloads reach 70GB . I've got a good ISP unlike the Shitty Bigpond ..who counts UPLOADS *Gasp*, Why do people need Satellite though ?and what are it's advantages ?

 

there is only one advantage, and that is you can get it anywhere. where i live half of the TOWNS are without adsl, let alone the farms. and there is only so far a wireless connection can reach.

 

12 gigs a month it's the best normal subscription you can get in belgium

 

I have no cap, so I have no idea how much I download/upload.

 

Seesh... if I were capped, I would cry. After that, I would find a new ISP. "Back in the day" I would download at least 30 gigs a month. I have been so busy lately that I don't really download anymore.

 

its a matter of focus
downloading is, to a large percentage, a background task. sentience is require to search and iniate process.the d/l will then proceed with or without your input.

search can be refined by establishing and maintaining reliable sources
initiation, by infrastructure tweaked just so

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it boils down to ones disposition and outlook on life
simplify or complicate

i know
cos i fluctuate b/w the two
and self flagellate if found wanting

 

i am on a commercial network now. rr to be exact.
yet, with 2 clicks, vpn and rdc, i could be on an .edu network. that translates to virtually unlimited resources

 

you have no idea how much i envy you

 

Ok, In layman terms please ?
I can only figure out Virtual Private Network, and wait Don't you have to connect to the network using a ISP ? and all access is through that ISP or is it changed when you change VPN ?

 

I only download slutbots.

 

Same here but it can't be more than a couple of 100 mb's a month. Apart from the normal website trafficking of course.

 

Nothing because it is illegal.

And I support capitalism.

 

Downloading is not illegal in itself.

 

I download mainly Tom Cruise movies.

Live Well, Tom Cruise

 

yes it is.

Downloading is stealing

 

Then you are stealing right now.. You can legally download shareware programs, images, websites (like you are doing right now) etc.

 

I download communism.