The megabyte thief

Posted by Firebird on Aug. 10, 2006, 12:02 a.m.

Well, as some of you know, I pretty much came back from camp.

Here is what happened -

I get to camp… ya de ya de ya… ah, screw it. You just had to be there to get the cool bits.

Exept when I was in the bus, going to the nightwalk, the other bus's window just appeared outside mine, and the lady said 'Can I have your torch please?'. It's kind of a running joke at school now, along with fake punching and saying 'I got suspended!' (Yeah, if you punch someone… suspension. Luckily this rule was enforced after I punched the guy in the face.)

Now, on to the megabyte thief…

I just recently went over my data limit. Which sucks. I am now browsing at 28.8kbps. It REALLY sucks. Anyway, the data limit was advertised as 2GB (sucks, yeah, I know), but I only got 2000MB. Where is my extra 48MB? Stolen by ninjas? Pirates? My ISP?

Maybe my ISP is stupid. Anyway, when I bought my 40 'GB' HDD, it wasn't actually 40GB. Which made me think, and do some maths.

I might have made an error, but if you buy a 100 'GB' drive, and it is only 100,000MB, you are cheated of 2.3GB! Agh, it makes me so angry. It's not really a big deal though…

Keep L337,

Firebird out!

Comments

Arcalyth 18 years, 3 months ago

…Bytes? You mean megabytes, right? 1024 bytes is a megabyte, not gigabyte.

-Arc

shadowstrike32 18 years, 3 months ago

The bandwidth limit for my ISP is insanely high… like 500GB or something crazy like that. Its like there isnt even a limit. 8mbps, 500gb transfer limit… its all good.

now the only thing i dont get is why i can download a file at 1MBps, but i cant maintaing a 512bps mplay connection. its just wrong.

Firebird 18 years, 3 months ago

Woah…

BuniSuitClassix 18 years, 3 months ago

IT was definatly pirates. Ninjas sit around and look cool, while pirates go around plundering stuff.

Arcalyth 18 years, 3 months ago

I don't have a bandwidth limit… either that or it's extremely high.

-Arc

Bex 18 years, 3 months ago

this is DUDE speeking

APlusHost 18 years, 3 months ago

Normal they set it to some high level, the reason for this is becuase large ofcom comapines said they had to start setting limits, so some set very low limits and some set high ones knowing nobody would reach them.

smarttart62 18 years, 3 months ago

People actually have bandwidth limits?

Oh, speaking of the internet, everyone (if they dont already… AKA you live under a rock) should know that AOL is going free (which it sucks anyways). AOL is going to be purely advert supported, which we al know that free services never last. And if they end up going under then AIM goes under too.

-Steve

Eternal 18 years, 3 months ago

Sorry, that was a typo.

Atmosck 18 years, 3 months ago

I think some hard drives are honest, or at least mine is, and i have about enough room for a Black & White 2 that i normally wouldn't.

You have a data limit? That's rare. At least it's not my friend theory, charging it like a poy-as-you-go phone, so you pay per megabyte of bandwidth.