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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: H_TeXMeX_H on 1 June 2006, 17:57

Title: Bandwidth limit
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 1 June 2006, 17:57: I couldn't help but notice that the site was down the last few days of last month because it ran out of bandwidth ... there seem to be a lot more people coming to the site than usual ... you think it might happen again this month ?
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: WMD on 1 June 2006, 19:55: I'm surprised you didn't suggest it was a Bill Gates conspiracy to DDoS the site. :D

Myself, I haven't noticed a lot more people coming. Perhaps the spiders were really busy last month? (Since there aren't that many pictures hosted here, I can't imagine that a couple extra members would push the site over the edge.)
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: worker201 on 1 June 2006, 20:38: I almost cried, I was so upset.:p

If we have to take up a collection to buy a couple more MB, let me know.
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 2 June 2006, 03:21: Quote from: WMD
I'm surprised you didn't suggest it was a Bill Gates conspiracy to DDoS the site. :D

Actually that thought has crossed my mind ... but I dunno ... why would Gate$ waste his time doing that when he could be devising other insidious plots to take over the galaxy. (He's already taken over earth and the moon ...)
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: Jack2000 on 2 June 2006, 15:13: Bandwidth limits?
come on man!
even in my country (hell on the loose) there is no such thing as a Bandwidth limit ...
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 2 June 2006, 17:46: Well your country is cool ... the US is not (maybe it was at one point, but recently everything has turned to shit !)
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: worker201 on 2 June 2006, 20:04: I just got back from visiting some pretty shitty places overseas, and I am beginning to wonder if maybe (just maybe) things like bandwidth limits and street sweeping machines and DRM and proprietary cola forumulas are the cornerstones of this fabulous society that we have here. Perhaps price-gouging by WalMart and corporate welfare for GM and the McDonaldization of the American farm is a good thing. Maybe these are the kinds of things that allow us to pave our roads and sterilize our bathrooms and browse through a store without being molested by an overachieving salesman.

Meh, probably not.
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: WMD on 2 June 2006, 23:34: Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H
Well your country is cool ... the US is not (maybe it was at one point, but recently everything has turned to shit !)

This site is hosted in Canada.

And while home internet connections almost never have bandwidth limits (except in crappy locations), paid web hosting almost always does.
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: piratePenguin on 3 June 2006, 00:37: I have a bandwidth limit :(
30Gb. EDIT: if I go over that I have to pay extra per gigabyte

Every ADSL service provider in my area that I know of has a bandwidth limit.

We should've gotten a bunch of computers to repeatadly visit microsuck.com, downloading the "bandwidth limit exceeded" message, increasing the bandwidth of the service provider :D

If someone made a program to do that, we could (unofficially) do it next time (if it happens again)...
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: WMD on 3 June 2006, 01:21: Yeah, Western Europe is one of those places where bandwidth limits are rampant. Austrailia is the other big one.
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: Pathos on 3 June 2006, 02:16: Here in New Zealand its pretty bad because we have a monopolistic telecomunications system (which should change some time soon).

30USD for 256kB downstream with a 10gig cap :(
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: Jack2000 on 3 June 2006, 10:30: any chance it might was
Bulgaria or Makedonia
or maby our Greek "friends"?
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: Calum on 3 June 2006, 19:06: Quote from: Pathos
Here in New Zealand its pretty bad because we have a monopolistic telecomunications system (which should change some time soon).

30USD for 256kB downstream with a 10gig cap :(

i have a download limit with british telecom, however toucan telecoms do not impose one (this is for home use)

since we're posting all this sort of thing, you know.
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: Refalm on 5 June 2006, 19:44: I now have 24 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up (usually get 18 Mbps down) for 59 euros a month with free telephone and cheap ratings.
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: piratePenguin on 5 June 2006, 22:03: Quote from: Refalm
I now have 24 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up (usually get 18 Mbps down) for 59 euros a month with free telephone and cheap ratings.
For 9 euro less I have 3mb down and 384kb up, with free line rental.... fuck sake we're still way behind the rest of europe!
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 June 2006, 00:29: I've got no limit to the amount of porn i can download.
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 18 June 2006, 04:23: really ... so you have a limit on anything but pr0n ?
Title: Re: Bandwidth limit
Post by: pofnlice on 18 June 2006, 13:14: I use Telewest / Blueyonder here in Birmingham England. I asked for an unlimited and they have one. 2Mb downstream...I can't remember what the up was, all for only 15 pounds a month. Also, the UK now has bulldog. It looks great through their package. Unlimited 8MB down for starter pack at like 17 pounds a month. The problem with telewest/blueyonder is they are also a cble TV and phone service provider, which means they are always calling me to switch phone from BT and TV from SKY....