When will iBurst drop prices...?

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Azimuth said:
On top of that, the overwhelming majority of home users consuming in excess of 10gb a month can only be using that bandwidth on torrents and other pirated stuff. Frankly, I don't give a **** that you're paying out of your arses for that.
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10GB is not that much if you're downloading patches, OS and program updates.
 
I'm a pretty serious gamer myself. I play anything up to 4-5 hours a day, on bandwidth-consuming games like Team Fortress 2 and Gears of War 2. On top of that, I've got the same Windows updates as everyone else, and I'll typically use up 50-100MB browsing daily. Including patches and whatnot, I very seldom manage to consume my allocated 5GB of bandwidth.
 
Azimuth said:
I'm a pretty serious gamer myself. I play anything up to 4-5 hours a day, on bandwidth-consuming games like Team Fortress 2 and Gears of War 2. On top of that, I've got the same Windows updates as everyone else, and I'll typically use up 50-100MB browsing daily. Including patches and whatnot, I very seldom manage to consume my allocated 5GB of bandwidth.
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Well that differs because I have a Mac and Windows machines.
My Windows machine(s) run AV, Spybot, Office and other apps (all need updates, AV takes 2-4MB daily by itself, sometimes more)
Windows updates
My Mac runs a Final Cut Pro setup which itself has frequent updates, plugins from numerous vendors which do updates - each update can be 60-100MB (for plugins)
Mac also runs OSX updates
Other Mac apps also like to update themselves
I also purchase videos online - mostly tutorials (subscription based)
Stock photography?
Online backup?
Your own website uploads?
Stock music? All those are done sometimes. Some are free, some need a credit card number.

Cheap bandwith is a necessity. Just because you're COOL with 5GB doesn't mean everyone else is a pirate. Its possible to purchase entertainment online too (downloadable videos), Games from sites like Gog.com and music.
Then there's tons of free stuff (not warez). Some sites release video for free
- and no-not everyone of those sites is in English. Music streaming sites?
Like to watch foreign TV? Like to listen to foreign radio stations for news and commentary? Like to download podcasts which are 3-5MB each?

Then game demos and program demos - PS demos are like 300-400MB each.

HTML browsing - sites now include inline video and graphics and ads play vidoes and banners - all that consumers b/w

I will say that 10GB is a minimum.
 
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lol, online backup!

who the hell in SA uses online backup???! it's but a dream......
 
VJB 449 said:
OT - Apartheid was wrong but blaming all your failures on apartheid is also wrong. Don't assume I did not feel apartheid's effects. I am sick of this apartheid blaming mentality and reluctance of people to take responsibility for their own actions. Hence my signature will remain, you will have to deal with it.
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What? Do you think I'm not aware of the problem of people blaming their own shortcomings on Apartheid? Of course that happens. But lets get some perspective on this: you break an oke's legs and you say, sure he can blame you for not being able to walk* - at least for a couple of months. Then, once he's healed and he complains about the limp, you say, "Don't efing blame me if you didn't do your physio!" At least, that's how it looks to me. If you're a black man, encouraging others to be strong, then sure, say it, otherwise, shuddup.

And think about the way it makes you look. The fact that this little side-issue, this little red herring, this ungracious cliche, is for you the really big issue, so much so that you elevate it to the status of a signature, defining your online identity ... well, it says more about you than it does about the issue. It gives me a whiff of what kind of person you are likely to have been back then.

But lets not hijack this thread any further. If you like, we could, as it were, step outside :-) and continue this juicy discussion elsewhere. It would be nice if you could give me an example of the kind of behaviour you're griping about.

&rew

* Of course, we'll have PeterCH pointing out how kind we were not to have inflicted the Chinese Red Terror on them.
 
A big whack of my bandwidth is used in sending my high rez photos to clients. They average 10megs each as jpegs but easily get to 40megs as tiffs. My overseas clients always wonder why I make such a big deal of it, why I don't just send the lot for them to look through. This is a new business I'm trying to set up and the bandwidth issue has me feeling like I'm breathing through a straw.
 
aalwees said:
A big whack of my bandwidth is used in sending my high rez photos to clients. They average 10megs each as jpegs but easily get to 40megs as tiffs. My overseas clients always wonder why I make such a big deal of it, why I don't just send the lot for them to look through. This is a new business I'm trying to set up and the bandwidth issue has me feeling like I'm breathing through a straw.
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I feel your pain. In the end I resorted to using the work FTP site (we host it locally in the office) to upload large documents for clients when I need to send them overseas, as doing it from home via iBurst or 3G is just not cost effective and way too slow for both me and my clients.
 
Keeper said:
lol, online backup!

who the hell in SA uses online backup???! it's but a dream......
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Well it doesn't mean you need to backup your MKV/DivX collection of 2 000 GB but it's possible to backup some things.
 
Latest news from iburst - Jannie bought himself a new orange motorbike. Nothing for us though.
 
Azimuth said:
I believe I said "the overwhelming majority", not "every single person ever". Consider yourself an exception.
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Oh, but I didn't see this as a personal attack on me. I pointed out to you that 5GB is rubbish, it is NOTHING. Yes it's cute to read a few pages and send some emails and do some gaming but you can't use Hulu, iTunes, CrunchyRoll, Amazon downloads, EMusic, Gog.com, etc - there are 100s of legit sites which offer video, music and software for download and this is the reason why we have this thing called broadband. Otherwise - welcome the 90s with 56K modem being good enough and usage of 250MB per month or less being the norm.

People who push for increased caps here are not pirates. Please don't suggest that - there are enough legit service around the world to disprove that.
 
How can 5gigs last a whole month if you play online games for 4-5hours a day... I've used 250meg on HoN alone this month and i've only played 4 games at 30 minutes a piece. Then CoD4 uses up to 50meg an hour... Wow = anything from 15 to 75megs an hour. In a month I can easily use 6-7gig for online gaming alone, then i still need to run updates and then there's facebook+my sister = GG WP no RE. 10 gigs gone in no time... And that without pirating so much as a picture.
 
Hey Shaun, when we gonna get some info on the new packages. Checked the website and no change. Not whining just want a date
 
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