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Originally Posted by sherman
PPS: This also explains why NZ'ers aren't terribly sympathetic to those poor moaning Comcast users getting their internet capped at 250GB/month (or whatever the cap was)
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I just came to live here in USA, after living in Belgium. There I had a 1GB monthly cap. (light package).
Normal internet there is more expensive and gives you 15GB highband (you could download upto 35GB highband if you wanted to, but I didn't need that amount of data, so I preferred the smaller account to save some $$$.
It was a 24hours highband connection, so as soon as the first day of the month appeared my connection was online downloading about 7GB the first 24 hours.
Then the lowband was on for the rest of the month, mainly downloading TV episodes.
When I 'bought' an additional 500MB for 3euro's, I could download an additional 3GB before they capped me to lowband.
That way I had a monthly traffic of about 10 to 15GB lowband connection included.
All above 1,5GB was actually 'free', but I'd leave my pc on 24/7.
Now that I'm here I'm pretty content with a 240GB cap.
I last 2 months I had less than 15GB total transfer data (up and down), and know that my wife loves youtube, and uploading pictures to her flickr account...
I understand that a cap sometimes is necessary.
I once did a test on my connection back in Belgium, and downloaded as many TV series as I could watch in a month, via bittorrent.
I set my down/up to 100/20 ratio. My total transfert was 120GB that month, and I literally spend loads of days watching avi and wmv's.
I can't understand someone that could actually be doing things twice like this nearly every month of the year...
I wouldn't know what to do with all that data...
However 10GB is just too little.
In sweden internet is still cap-less as I heard...
I think the average internet should have at least a 35GB cap or more to comfortably be on the internet.
I mean, I'm also a linux noob, and downloading a large linux could easely cost me 4GB of my bandwidth...
So, I feel pitty on you; I know the terror of the 10GB cap!
