ADSL is like crack

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Darth Garth

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Ex ISDN user now on broadband ... 3 months later.

Just ordered my second 3GB account ... feel like an crack addict ... need more bandwith .... need lots of it .... hellppppp .... pleeeaaaaazzzzeeeee.
 
tibby.dude said:
.. feel like an crack addict ... need more bandwith .... need lots of it .... hellppppp .... pleeeaaaaazzzzeeeee.
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Amen !!! to that ... :D ... I know exactly how you feel ... I've got two accounts each with a different ISP. By the end of the month I incubate all the stuff I need to download the moment I'm uncapped ... then I use my first account for downloading only non stop. This month I managed to pull 7.7 GB fom my one 3GB account ... as for my second one I'll use it carefully untill the last 4 days ... then all hell will break loose I tell ya .. I'm also hoping to pull @ least 6 GB off it. Wish me luck ... :D
 
Yea that is more than possable, I find that you can get 6 people on 1 account for two days before the cap enforcement comes through. Its probably a time thing more than its a users thing.

Oh and good luck :)
 
hihi, thats easy. I had 4 different capped accounts and with three of them I was downloading about 30 - 35 Gigs per month *gg*
 
Why don't you just get UUNET Uncapped...I mean it is the same cost as 2 X 3GB accounts [I know Celemasiko has it] but I'm referring to tibby.dude.
 
stoke said:
I don't get it. Thats like a min of R 250 per account, for R 1000 bucks I'd just go and buy whatever it is you're downloading.
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Unfortunately it is very difficult to find German movies/games to buy here in South Africa... My wife is not very fit in the english language yet.
 
I also don't get this whole thing - eventually it just becomes downloading for the sake of it. When I used to have access to a diginet line, I was obsessed with just downloading all the time - I couldn't stand to see bandwidth wasted :D

Now I'm on a capped 3g account, I've been pretty much cured of my downloading addiction.

The only thing that bugs me is not being able to d/l something when I really want it, because otherwise I'll go over my cap. Other than that, I can manage not to have to give yet more money to an ISP - I wish I had the money to get 3 friggin' accounts a month, but my expenses are already R8000 pm before food or enterainment.

If I were on an uncapped line, I dought I'd do more than 10gig a month
 
bb_matt said:
I also don't get this whole thing - eventually it just becomes downloading for the sake of it. When I used to have access to a diginet line, I was obsessed with just downloading all the time - I couldn't stand to see bandwidth wasted :D

Now I'm on a capped 3g account, I've been pretty much cured of my downloading addiction.

The only thing that bugs me is not being able to d/l something when I really want it, because otherwise I'll go over my cap. Other than that, I can manage not to have to give yet more money to an ISP - I wish I had the money to get 3 friggin' accounts a month, but my expenses are already R8000 pm before food or enterainment.

If I were on an uncapped line, I dought I'd do more than 10gig a month
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I think our situation is a bit different to yours.

We are both disabled, wheelchairbound, and I am on top mostly bedridden, depenend on artificial breathing and dialysis.

So my computer is my only key to the outside world, as well as my downloads. What ever I want, I download it.

By the way, the internet is the only luxery I have!!! I dont need money for nice restaurants or discos/bars or what so-ever.
 
Understood. That's the thing about online, you can be anyone or anything.
Is there no benefits in terms of reduced fees ?
Hmm, I tend forget this is South Africa, so I guess not.

Do you run an online business too ?
 
bb_matt said:
Understood. That's the thing about online, you can be anyone or anything.
Is there no benefits in terms of reduced fees ?
Hmm, I tend forget this is South Africa, so I guess not.

Do you run an online business too ?
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Of course not, there is no reduction at all.... contrary to Germany I had 50% reduction. But I am not complaining, I live in one of the most beatiful countries on earth, even if I can only see it through my window.

I am doing some webdesign, specially Flash....otherwise I am a pensioner
 
bb_matt said:
I also don't get this whole thing - eventually it just becomes downloading for the sake of it.
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I don't do Kazaa as I don't really watch TV or enjoy movies ... made the mistake of watching Tomb Raider last night ... boy what a stinker except for Angelina Jolie offcourse.

I will be using VPN to work for after hours support hence the need for an extra account which will be paid for when I stop using dialup.

Also I recently discovered podcasting and that really chews up the cap.
 
I am not using Kazaa at all anymore. Kazaa is so much virus and fake infested, I dont even give it a try...
 
Celemasiko said:
I am not using Kazaa at all anymore. Kazaa is so much virus and fake infested, I dont even give it a try...
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Well Kazaa is dead anyway ... the australian courts are busy cutting them to pieces and the execs who now own it (who bought from the Skype people) is busy dumping all their assets expecting the worst.

Napster Part II.
 
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