On Wed, Sep 21, 2005, David Randelman wrote about "RE: Actcom without a dailer costs more": > have no contractual limit on my usage, that I paid extra to increase my > upload to 150kbps and to be fair, I don't think 20GB for 3 months (both TX > and RX) is abusive of the service.
What's strange about these stories is that they appear to complain about usages which don't appear extreme at all. 20 GB for 3 months is just 2.5 KB/s (20 kbps), an amount that even a modem user could use (say, connected 8 hours a day). If you're not even allowed to constantly use 20 kbps, what's the point in selling you a 1500 kbps connection? If you use the full speed of your connection for just 19 minutes a day, you'll reach 20 GB after 3 months. And when you consider that downloading a new Linux distribution takes up about 4 GB, that maintaining your system upgraded often requires a further 100 MB a week (hey, Fedora, stop updating huge packages like X, KDE, etc.!), 20 GB for 3 months doesn't even sound that much. I'd be suprised if I don't reach 20 GB for 3 months as well - and I swear that I don't download any movies :-) -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Sep 21 2005, 17 Elul 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I put a dollar in one of those change http://nadav.harel.org.il |machines. Nothing changed. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
