Give it another 5 weeks or so and it will be back to its length that makes me really good looking, like Derek Zoolander :
Hmmm, that was a good movie.
Back to school on the 16th... on the bright side that means that I'll be out of it sooner... I hope.
Recently we got a friendly reminder from Telkom, our ISP, that we had almost used up all our cap. now if you aren't familiar with the spawn of satan that is a bandwidth cap, then let me explain.
In sunny South Africa we have one telecommunications company, Telkom, affectionately nicknamed Hellkom, Telscum, Monopolydotcom and many others. So we have our internet plan with them and all the other ISP's basically have to use Hellkom lines so they set their prices at so and so rand and the minimum for a 512kb/s line, just the line, is about R320 which is about US$47 per month. Now if you add in an extra R200 (US$30) for a 3gb cap you get a lot of money. Or rather, you pay a lot of money.
And, from what I hear, you get uncapped 5mb/s connections for even cheaper. "But what is this cap?" I hear you who have been unscathed by the Hellkom menace. Well, we are only allowed to download (and upload) a combined total of 3gb per month.
So lets say you're a gamer. Most games differ but let's say it's a game, or combination of such, that uses 30mb per hour. So 4 weekends of gaming gives you about 48 hours (5 for Saturdays and Sundays and 2 for the Fridays). 48 x 30 = 1440mb worth of gaming. So that is effectively half your cap. Now games come with their associated content, such as maps, patches, and all that. So let's round it off to about 1700mb for gaming. Your remaining bandwidth is now 1,3gb. Well that's not so bad, is it? Ah, but did we count general surfing?
Now this may depend on what you have open, and quantity, but the average web page is about 130kb. So lets say you go to 200 pages a day, a very rough estimate, that equals 2,6mb a day,. Times 30 gives you 78mb. Not much, eh? So that's 1,2gb left. Wow, Telkom isn't looking so bad after all. Oh wait, we forgot the miscellaneous downloads! Mp3's, pictures, and some other fancy application or other. There's always something new to download. So let's put downloads to a meagre 200mb per month. 1 gb left? Wow, that's a lot!
Ah, but what about the family multiplier? So we have 4 members in our family that use the internet. None of them game as much as I do, that would be quite a sight indeed hehe, but they might even surf more or download more. So is 3gb enough? Well, we find it is just exactly. But you have to control yourself and now that we have a webcam I think it's gonna shoot through the roof. Hey, it already has. Yay for monopolies.
Hmmm, that was a good movie.
Back to school on the 16th... on the bright side that means that I'll be out of it sooner... I hope.
Recently we got a friendly reminder from Telkom, our ISP, that we had almost used up all our cap. now if you aren't familiar with the spawn of satan that is a bandwidth cap, then let me explain.
In sunny South Africa we have one telecommunications company, Telkom, affectionately nicknamed Hellkom, Telscum, Monopolydotcom and many others. So we have our internet plan with them and all the other ISP's basically have to use Hellkom lines so they set their prices at so and so rand and the minimum for a 512kb/s line, just the line, is about R320 which is about US$47 per month. Now if you add in an extra R200 (US$30) for a 3gb cap you get a lot of money. Or rather, you pay a lot of money.
And, from what I hear, you get uncapped 5mb/s connections for even cheaper. "But what is this cap?" I hear you who have been unscathed by the Hellkom menace. Well, we are only allowed to download (and upload) a combined total of 3gb per month.
So lets say you're a gamer. Most games differ but let's say it's a game, or combination of such, that uses 30mb per hour. So 4 weekends of gaming gives you about 48 hours (5 for Saturdays and Sundays and 2 for the Fridays). 48 x 30 = 1440mb worth of gaming. So that is effectively half your cap. Now games come with their associated content, such as maps, patches, and all that. So let's round it off to about 1700mb for gaming. Your remaining bandwidth is now 1,3gb. Well that's not so bad, is it? Ah, but did we count general surfing?
Now this may depend on what you have open, and quantity, but the average web page is about 130kb. So lets say you go to 200 pages a day, a very rough estimate, that equals 2,6mb a day,. Times 30 gives you 78mb. Not much, eh? So that's 1,2gb left. Wow, Telkom isn't looking so bad after all. Oh wait, we forgot the miscellaneous downloads! Mp3's, pictures, and some other fancy application or other. There's always something new to download. So let's put downloads to a meagre 200mb per month. 1 gb left? Wow, that's a lot!
Ah, but what about the family multiplier? So we have 4 members in our family that use the internet. None of them game as much as I do, that would be quite a sight indeed hehe, but they might even surf more or download more. So is 3gb enough? Well, we find it is just exactly. But you have to control yourself and now that we have a webcam I think it's gonna shoot through the roof. Hey, it already has. Yay for monopolies.
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3gigs? You must be joking We have two :P You'd better be grateful for this blog visiting :)
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