Yeah I got the same plan. We busted it a few times already. Good news is that they don't seem to ever charge you more than 30$ in "fines". Yeah. These companies are major suckage. I wonder why they keep boasting about how fast the downloads are with their services. I mean, yeah, it's quite fast, but if you really use that speed, like every day, you're going to bust that 20 gigs in a matter of days.
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Yeah I got the same plan. We busted it a few times already. Good news is that they don't seem to ever charge you more than 30$ in "fines". Yeah. These companies are major suckage. I wonder why they keep boasting about how fast the downloads are with their services. I mean, yeah, it's quite fast, but if you really use that speed, like every day, you're going to bust that 20 gigs in a matter of days.
Till
Adventurer
1 minute of music sampled with 44kHZ and encoded with 64kbs (values for an average online radio stream) only uses ~500kB. Using this as a conservative estimate for the bandwidth use of TF2's voice stream gives you over 600 hours of gaming before you hit the 20Gb limit.
This is an conservative estimate, as speech only requires a sample rate of 8kHZ to remain understandable, so the actual bandwidth usage will work out to much less than 500kb/min.
Yeah that seems about right, although I do other things with my internet than playing online games. And we're two computers always connected to the internet at the same time.
I find it rather pathetic that around here anyway, ISPs are so draconian on their limits to download. I mean, they're just not allowing us to follow the market that the internet is going for, like paying to rent movies online (download) to watch on your computer, or paying to download music. Could it be because one of the major players in ISPs around here (Videotron) is also the owner of one of the biggest movie rental stores chain in the province? In a way, if they allowed people to download more stuff, they may end up losing on the whole DVD rental side of things. This is kind of unethical. Canada has an extremely crappy telecom business. Just ask anyone with a cellphone. Jeez, weren't they about to charge us for RECEIVING text messages recently?
Again, this makes my blood boil. At this point, we shouldn't even be talking about speed, all people do is complain or talk or discuss about which ISP is the fastest, screw that, they're all fast enough, that's not the problem.
Maniacal
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Lots of telecomunicatinos companies in north america basically rape your wallet. Cell phones are especially rediculous, a friend of mine in the US is charged for recieving texts (or at least if she opens them, not sure exactly) and has a limit of 500 free texts (both ones she sends, and ones she RECIEVES, which is rediculous, what if some idiot starts spamming you and then you have to pay $50?). Last fall / late summer I rea an article where an internet company in the states was testing download caps in one town in Texas iirc.
In BC unless you live on a road that has cable hooked up, your only chocie is dial up (anyone who sues that is an idiot, honestly, unless they don't have another choice) or Telus 'highspeed' (at least, Telus is the only other provider I know of). I think they used to have 4 plans, but only have three now, (for homes), $15, 25 and 30. The difference between the $25 and $39 is download/upload speeds, and you get 10 instead of 5 useless webmail accounts, which have a horrible spam filter. But they do both have a 60gb download/upload usage with $2/additional GB used.
http://www.telus.com/portalWeb/inli...mpare/High_Speed_Plans_and_Prices/?_region=BC
In BC unless you live on a road that has cable hooked up, your only chocie is dial up (anyone who sues that is an idiot, honestly, unless they don't have another choice) or Telus 'highspeed' (at least, Telus is the only other provider I know of). I think they used to have 4 plans, but only have three now, (for homes), $15, 25 and 30. The difference between the $25 and $39 is download/upload speeds, and you get 10 instead of 5 useless webmail accounts, which have a horrible spam filter. But they do both have a 60gb download/upload usage with $2/additional GB used.
http://www.telus.com/portalWeb/inli...mpare/High_Speed_Plans_and_Prices/?_region=BC
TF2 uses 11khz for mic speech
Mulholland
Happy New Year!!!!
Yes, we can all agree Canadian internet service has a long way to come. On another note, when are we going to have the next CFC TF2 meetup?
Hopefully not tomorrow. I have to read at a quizbowl tournament.
I'm free for the other remaining January weekends though.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
That alone is going to make me like comcast less and less and making me wanna shop for an ISP that does not impose such limits and/or charge you for an additional Gig over the limit.
I wonder that too. Any time between Friday to Saturday is good for me (Those are my days off from work anyway)
Mulholland
Happy New Year!!!!
Hopefully not tomorrow. I have to read at a quizbowl tournament.
I'm free for the other remaining January weekends though.
CivGeneral said:
Maybe next Saturday around 3:00 then.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Mulholland
Happy New Year!!!!
We're the same timezone. We usually do it around 3:00 EST.
Kan' Sharuminar
Fluffy
I should be able to make next Saturday 
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
Yay, I get to see Kan for a change in TF2I should be able to make next Saturday
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Bigfoot3814
Deity
I'll be there too! (Finally, Jeez. I haven't played in forever.)
Bigfoot3814
Deity
OK, what's your current name?
azzaman333
meh
I shall likely be there.
Masada is his current name.
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