Bandwidth

Phiano

I'm on a 10gb a month limit, I don't figure it could be much but how much bandwidth does Achaea take per hour or per minute or whatever you have is good thanks!

Shecks

Achaea's bandwidth is ignorable.  You could spam "snuggle veldrin" 24/7, and never come even marginally close to approaching that limit.

Can't say the same for cat pics.

Blujixapug

I'm not certain on the exact amount but it's completely negligible. Next to nothing. Probably the least bandwidth-intensive thing you could do on the internet, next to IRC. I used to be on a 4 gig/month plan - I had to budget my youtube views - and Achaea did not make a scratch, let alone a dent.

Mishgul

i had a 500mb per month limit between 2010-2012 and rarely came close to running out if i just played achaea, and used skype.

Cooper

My house with 4 people in it has a 250gb limit per month and we go over every time

Arador

Try unticking the HD tag on your porn sites.

Cooper

Never!

Arador

Hey I grew up with 56k modems. I have been conditioned to find blurrier sexier. Besides, higher resolution is not always better. At some point it just becomes gyneocology.

Eld

Youngun.

Arador

Not really, it is more because I grew up on a farm we could not get dial-up capable lines until 56k modems were already commonplace. True connection speed was 14.4k so I at least have some idea how people in first world countries felt a decade years earlier.

Trevize

Arador said:

Hey I grew up with 56k modems. I have been conditioned to find blurrier sexier. Besides, higher resolution is not always better. At some point it just becomes gyneocology.

This?

Rangor

bandwidth limit? what's that?

Alkaid

Rangor said:

bandwidth limit? what's that?

Something people from New Zealand have had to put up with for longer than I care to admit and will continue having to put up with for a long time to come, unless we pay an arm and a leg for 'unlimited' - most places I know of charge $100+ per month for it, plus depending on the ISP they usually have a Acceptable Use Policy (so if you go over a set amount on a regular basis they still reserve the right to throttle your speed back or push you onto a different plan) or they "shape" internet traffic, so that P2P traffic gets slower speeds or lower priority.

Examples of some of the prices charged here:

ADSL2+ with 30gb data cap (Orcon Internet): $75 a month

ADSL2 with 30gb data cap (Slingshot internet): $81 a month

ADSL with 40gb data cap (Telecom Xtra): $75 a month

Strata

Alkaid said:

Rangor said:

bandwidth limit? what's that?

Something people from New Zealand have had to put up with for longer than I care to admit and will continue having to put up with for a long time to come, unless we pay an arm and a leg for 'unlimited' - most places I know of charge $100+ per month for it, plus depending on the ISP they usually have a Acceptable Use Policy (so if you go over a set amount on a regular basis they still reserve the right to throttle your speed back or push you onto a different plan) or they "shape" internet traffic, so that P2P traffic gets slower speeds or lower priority.

Examples of some of the prices charged here:

ADSL2+ with 30gb data cap (Orcon Internet): $75 a month

ADSL2 with 30gb data cap (Slingshot internet): $81 a month

ADSL with 40gb data cap (Telecom Xtra): $75 a month

Usually the unlimited packages are not truly unlimited. They say it's unlimited until you buy it and go over some unspoken amount. Then you get a letter saying you went over and get charged for it and your speed gets cut down to nothing (while still paying for unlimited ofc). If you say "that's fraud, I'm cancelling." then they have the right to charge you early contract cancellation fees which you had no choice but to agree to in order to have connectivity - because it's very likely that it's the only provider you have. Most providers separate their service areas amongst eachother in such a manner that there is no overlap, thereby giving people only one option and showing the government an illusion that it's still a competitive market.

On the positive side of this, software and hardware mechanisms to do things like block ads, use lowest quality settings on sites like youtube, ustream, livestream, cache frequently used sites locally, etc. will begin to have much higher value. If you are technically inclined to provide solutions for the future internet where everyone from all countries is essentially in "data poverty", you will be a very wealthy person.

Cooper

My internet is 250gb per month, and we're just charged $10 if we go over. If we go over 250gb again after paying $10 we're charged another $10.

Sarapis

Arador said:

Hey I grew up with 56k modems. I have been conditioned to find blurrier sexier. Besides, higher resolution is not always better. At some point it just becomes gyneocology.

I used to MUD on a 9600 dialup connection, on a game that charged by the hour (about 80 cents an hour). The actual real world speed was lower than that, and the mud admin actually ran the server out of a rented flat where they had terminals set up and where you could go and play on LAN speed connections, while paying twice the hourly rate.

Cooper

He meant Aardwolf.

Traitor.

Sarapis

Aardwolf didn't exist then! This was like 1994.

Cooper

Oh.

Well.

Shut up.

Arador

@Sarapis I know that feeling somewhat. Calls to even local numbers have never been free here so every moment on the Web costs us. To make matters even more fun, there was no local ISP so the nearest one to call was a national long distance number. Our phone bill went up 8-fold, my father wanted to kill me and I only survived cause I downloaded interesting agriculture articles for him.

"That article not done yet?!"

"No dad, it is about 40% done!" *waits patiently for Usenet porn downloading*

"It was 60% 20 minutes ago!" 

"Um....the line got disconnected!" *watches door with mouse hovering over "X"

Strata

Arador said:

@Sarapis I know that feeling somewhat. Calls to even local numbers have never been free here so every moment on the Web costs us. To make matters even more fun, there was no local ISP so the nearest one to call was a national long distance number. Our phone bill went up 8-fold, my father wanted to kill me and I only survived cause I downloaded interesting agriculture articles for him.

"That article not done yet?!"

"No dad, it is about 40% done!" *waits patiently for Usenet porn downloading*

"It was 60% 20 minutes ago!" 

"Um....the line got disconnected!" *watches door with mouse hovering over "X"

Wow. exact same situation for me but the only reason I survived was because my dad said "you can get free porn with that?!"

Alkaid

I had things fairly easy, my mother was very computer illiterate, my father less-so, but he taught me all the tricks of the trade (Attrib +h *.* for the win!)   Probably never realised it would come back to bite him in the rear with the advent of the internet >_>