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
Since about 1880, when it first had the monopoly on phones. :3
I'd be jealous of your download speeds, but I'm trying patience instead. At this rate, it'll take me two months of 10 hour per day downloading to download all the Steam games I currently own, and another month to download the games I want. Yay. At least I'll be forced to do something productive while I wait…
We should start mailing flash drives back and forth for our members with drinking-straw pipes.
Actually, mailing large-capacity SSDs is cheaper and faster than almost any ISP in Canada (in data throughput, of course. Latency is an issue.)
See AlsoThat's an awesome idea. Pity my neighbor got rid of his flock of pigeons…
Next we try Intercontinental Ballistic Packets.