lost innocence

[sarren]

*from the other end of the house*

Dragonfly - INTERNET VERY SLOW TODAY.
Me -Uh oh.
Dfly What?
Me Have you been downloading a lot?
Dfly *innocently* Yes, why?
Me HOW MUCH have you downloaded?
Dfly Four-something gig. Why?

*wavy thing to denote memory*

Me Yes hello I want to switch to broadband.
CS- Which package would you like?
Me Well I

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[zebra363]

I need to upgrade RIGHT THIS SECOND.

This happened to me too. I think I ran out of space in the first five days of the first month. Can't even remember what I was doing...oh yes, Mag 7 episodes.

[sarren]

Yes, I remember.

It was funny when it happened to you.

[cricketk]

Tee hee!

We get shaped for about 3 days every month - depending on whether creativemeans has successfully managed to download an entire season of TV, or whether we have sneakily stopped her downloading attempts. Being shaped sucks.

Unshaped download speed - 65-100kbps
Shaped download speed - 5-10kbps

[sarren]

Yeah, supposedly it's fixed, but I'm feeling like I'm on back on dialup here, which is contributing to my feeling out-of-sorts. *sigh*

[cricketk]

WE will love you and miss you and eat food in your name.

LLF<
K

[sarren]

Dialup speed is not the equivalent of DEATH.

It may feel similar, but...

Also, do you have my Shaun of the Dead?

[kremmen]

That's funny. You wouldn't run out of petrol without noticing would you?

Also funny to me is that you'd call them. Can't you just upgrade your plan on your ISP's web site?

If you want to download something large, you can always leave it to the last billing day of the month so that it doesn't ever count. Of course, that's no good if you're impatient.

[sarren]

No, because the petrol gauge is RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES. Also, I DIDN'T KNOW that my housemate was downloading so much.

I probably could upgrade at the website if hadn't of been PANICKING.

Why doesn't it count on the last billing day?

[kremmen]

I realised after I posted that I was a little ambiguous: When I said "you", I meant it in the plural, not to just yourself. Indeed, I meant it in reference to whoever is doing the downloading.

Some people do download the equivalent of a gauge. Others of us just check our ISP's web site occasionally.

I'm not aware of any ISP's doing shaping by the minute. Probably once a day your ISP's billing computer adds up your usage for the month to date and, if it's over the limit, marks you for reduced speed. If I run over my limit at any time of day, shaping will happen on my line at sometime early the following morning, giving me as much as a full day of full speed while I'm actually over the limit. If I go over on the last day of the month, it's already the new month by the time the calculation takes place.