Comment

Comment on Daily Discussion Thread : Saturday 28th December 2024 This is an emoji free zone - for today at least.

Nath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’m glad I don’t need to watch the amount downloaded on the home Internet any longer. Between my kid downloading most of his Nintendo Switch library to his shiny new SD card on Christmas night and me downloading 100 GB or so off Steam tonight, it would have blown away whatever limits my account had.

To think, I took a screenshot of an especially heavy download session one time in the 90’s, where I managed to stay online for almost 24 hours and downloaded 139 MB! One session!

source

Sort:hotnew top

Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I hear you. My current upload since I moved into this place is 43tb. And download is 18tb lol

source
- Nath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I might have 18tb total storage capacity in the house (5 phones, 3 tablets, 5 laptops, one desktop and external storage). I sure as hell don’t have 43 tb. What the hell are you transferring?
  
  source
  - Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Mostly Virtual Instruments. One drumkit can be upto 170gb. A piano could be 120gb etc It starts to add up after a while.
    
    And I have all my important studio projects syncing to google drive in real time.
    
    And then I have a seedbox running torrents.
    
    source
    Cendana@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    What sort of upload speed you got?
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
Baku@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m glad most home internet has gone unlimited, too. In my comparison spree, I didn’t even see any that were limited, though I’m sure they still exist somewhere

My thing that I feel like I got to grow up seeing get better isn’t internet speeds, it’s mobile data allowances. The first phone plan mum had that I remember anything about had 2gb data for $30 a month. When I got my first phone plan, that climbed up to 5gb for the same price.

When I moved to melbs, I ditched Telstra and doubled it at Optus with 10gb a month. I switched to boost for a little while who were offering 15 a month. Then when I turned 14 and could sign up for Amaysim, I switched to them and started getting 30 a month. Then after I’d been with them for a year, they just all of a sudden upgraded me to 55gb a month at no extra cost. I’ve only ever been on a $30/mo plan.

source
- RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t use a lot of data, so having everything unlimited means all the NBN plans are very expensive for what I use. I’m on a Telstra 5G plan instead, and have found that after I run out of data and they reduce the speed it is still good enough for me to use, so I’m just on their $25 a month plan. I run out of data allowance for the higher speed a week or two into every month. Occassionally if it is very congested and slows more than usual I will switch to using my mobile as a hotspot - I have a $120 a year 120gb plan for that with Catch, and don’t generally use that much data. So my monthly spend for mobile & home internet is $35.
  
  Obviously if you do a lot of gaming or high resolution video streaming (or just have lots of people in your household) this wouldn’t work, but for general browsing and watching videos on my tablet it is the cheapest option I’ve been able to find.
  
  source