'Unlimited' internet...

Posted by Astryl on Feb. 25, 2013, 3:44 a.m.

Last month, our national ISP announced their plan to put all entry-level and higher broadband connections onto a 'soft cap' system.

This basically gives us 10GB of full-speed internet, and once that's gone, we have 'prioritized' internet access. Meaning that priority is given to the people who haven't used up all their initial data.

This is basically a form of throttling, in two ways. It makes the connection slow on certain sites, and makes the user want to throttle the ISP. They also set lowest priority to 'video streams' and 'file transfers'.

Now Youtube is painfully slow, so I can't really use it (Though ironically I can upload videos at a decent rate). Other things I can do:

> Use Soundcloud (Given a few seconds to buffer the music)

> Use NicoNico.

> Use uTorrent (At around 5KB per second)

> Download hosted files from other sites at around half speed (50KB per second).

> Use Steam at full speed, probably because of the local servers.

> Access most sites. Except those that rely heavily on things like YT, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Out of all the sites I can access, Twitter and 64Digits are the fastest. So not too bad.

So, did anybody else buy the Mojam 2 bundle? I did. Watched the livestreams for a while too. Ditched 'em when the Scrolls giveaway began (Though I did try for a code, to be honest).

I watched Jeb, mostly. His code style is pretty similar to the way I've been working recently. He was also giving nice bits of insight into the way he codes every so often.

I'm looking forward to poking around all the source code to the games.

Anyway, I leave you with some of the music I'm listening to at the moment.

No new music from me, I'm working on several pieces at the moment that are progressing very slowly. Two of them are synth pieces, one of them is a 'classical' piece using a soundfont, and the others are chiptunes (There's three of them).

Note, this is a blind embed. Hope it's what I intended :P

Comments

Cpsgames 11 years, 6 months ago

Damn, I want melee's connection. :(

This is mine. This is actually fast compared to its usual speeds. Though, I'm glad I don't have a cap because I download a looooooooooot.

RC 11 years, 6 months ago

Your Speed Result:

Download Speed: 11461 kbps (1432.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 2001 kbps (250.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Speedtest.net never works for me, nor is it ever accurate compared to Steam, Chrome, and all other download methods. Speakeasy is more accurate for me, but probably only for the US.

Edit: Oh hey, speedtest worked.

Ping is a fluke. It's usually in the mid 800s.

JID 11 years, 6 months ago

melee-master 11 years, 6 months ago

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WTF? I can only imagine you guys must have some uncapped server-hosting plan on your ISPs because that kinda speed is completely unnecessary for casual internet use.

There is an uncapped variant of my plan but I'd rather not pay that much - I already get 1TB a month.

And it's actually great. There are five people on my connection and I can download games on Steam extremely fast. Also perfect for LANs. Don't have to worry about the connection going to crap because too many people are using it. $115 a month before tax, but it's worth it.

RC 11 years, 6 months ago

Quote: melee-master
$115 a month
I hate US ISPs… making people pay more than that price for crappier-than-mine satellite internet. The sad thing is that people actually pay that much because they can't get anything better than dial-up.

melee-master 11 years, 6 months ago

I'm just lucky I live in Metro Vancouver. There are lots of places in Canada where Internet access is stupidly priced and awful, like in the northern territories.

Eva unit-01 11 years, 6 months ago

Big cities usually = wider variety of ISPs therefore opening you to better choices in terms of what they're offering, speed, and price.

Kinda feel bad for anyone out of the way of things where these deals aren't really available to them.

melee-master 11 years, 6 months ago

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This is mine. This is actually fast compared to its usual speeds. Though, I'm glad I don't have a cap because I download a looooooooooot.

You live in KC?

You need to get Google fiber, my phone's terrible 3G is faster!

firestormx 11 years, 6 months ago

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I hate US ISPs… making people pay more than that price for crappier-than-mine satellite internet.
Most of Canada hates you for saying that. Western Canada is really good. In the eastern half it is ridiculous. I'm lucky enough to live in a city that has an alternative to Bell, Rogers, and whatever that Quebec ISP is.

Kamira 11 years, 6 months ago

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Big cities usually = wider variety of ISPs

I wish. Unfortunately, because Charter is in Fort Worth, Verizon isn't. People who live a mile away from me outside of Fort Worth can get fiber optic, but I can't:/

Not that Charter is bad though.