Over a 64kbit/sec satellite with 1GB monthly traffic limit it ain't scraping no barrel, especially when there's a storm - I know this because I have one. It costs me about the same per month as my metro 20Mbit/sec unlimited traffic link. My neighbours have a 256kbit service with 4Gb quota for which they pay three times as much, but they're primary producers so they get a tax payer (i.e. me) funded subsidy :lol:
The OP may have better things to do at weekend than worry about it - it was a curiosity question as I recall - it wasn't stopping anything working.
I saw you got a new Kobo, and immediately ran into the sort of problems you were trying to avoid - you can't say you weren't warned.
I often find myself comparing peoples woes with ereader's with the Voyager space probes. Always ends up with me saying - if we could do that then, then something has gone terribly wrong over the last 35 years, if we can't do this now
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