Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?
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@bb36e said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
That's a great way to go past your data usage capNever mind, I posted too early in the morning
My data usage cap is 250GB, I think. I can go over, but it's something crazy like $10 for each 50GB. The hard cap is around 4TB just because it's mathematically impossible to download more than that with my speed in a month.
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@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
That's a great way to go past your data usage capNever mind, I posted too early in the morning
My data usage cap is 250GB, I think. I can go over, but it's something crazy like $10 for each 50GB. The hard cap is around 4TB just because it's mathematically impossible to download more than that with my speed in a month.
That's terrible. Awful internet speeds, with a data cap? Jeez...
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@sloosecannon said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
That's a great way to go past your data usage capNever mind, I posted too early in the morning
My data usage cap is 250GB, I think. I can go over, but it's something crazy like $10 for each 50GB. The hard cap is around 4TB just because it's mathematically impossible to download more than that with my speed in a month.
That's terrible. Awful internet speeds, with a data cap? Jeez...
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@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
He'll need more than 56k. I'm at around 2.6 Mbps and I still do the same thing for the same reason.
@sloosecannon said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
Redownloading 60GB of game is no fun no matter how fast your internet is. Unless you're rocking 10gb/s or something.
That too.
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
That's a great way to go past your data usage capNever mind, I posted too early in the morning
My data usage cap is 250GB, I think. I can go over, but it's something crazy like $10 for each 50GB. The hard cap is around 4TB just because it's mathematically impossible to download more than that with my speed in a month.
Hm. I keep seeing that same rate - $10/50GB above cap. Shentel for what I'm upgrading to, and I think the other was Comcast.
@sloosecannon said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
That's a great way to go past your data usage capNever mind, I posted too early in the morning
My data usage cap is 250GB, I think. I can go over, but it's something crazy like $10 for each 50GB. The hard cap is around 4TB just because it's mathematically impossible to download more than that with my speed in a month.
That's terrible. Awful internet speeds, with a data cap? Jeez...
I also had HughesNet (satellite internet) a while back, and that was even worse. Not terribly bad speeds under normal usage, but if you exceeded your allowance for the day you got rate limited until something like 24 hours later.
Painfully rate limited. I think it was worse than @BenLubar's normal or Milwaukee PC speeds.
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@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@sloosecannon said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
That's a great way to go past your data usage capNever mind, I posted too early in the morning
My data usage cap is 250GB, I think. I can go over, but it's something crazy like $10 for each 50GB. The hard cap is around 4TB just because it's mathematically impossible to download more than that with my speed in a month.
That's terrible. Awful internet speeds, with a data cap? Jeez...
Ok, I looked it up, and it's actually a 1TB data cap with $10 for each 50GB past with a limit of $100 extra per month (and I assume it's free after that, so the first 1TB is what I'm paying for, the next 0.5TB costs $100, and then the next 2.5TB is free?)
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@dreikin said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
I keep seeing that same rate - $10/50GB above cap.
MilwaukeePC, which subcontracts through AT&T.
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@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@dreikin said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
I keep seeing that same rate - $10/50GB above cap.
MilwaukeePC, which subcontracts through AT&T.
I smell collusion.
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@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@sloosecannon said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar if you had faster than 56k modem internet speed, you could just leave Steam games uninstalled until you want to play them.
That's a great way to go past your data usage capNever mind, I posted too early in the morning
My data usage cap is 250GB, I think. I can go over, but it's something crazy like $10 for each 50GB. The hard cap is around 4TB just because it's mathematically impossible to download more than that with my speed in a month.
That's terrible. Awful internet speeds, with a data cap? Jeez...
I used to not have a data cap, but we were strong-armed by Comcast into switching to a plan with a data cap when we moved last March.
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@pie_flavor According to their own service description, Comcast has data caps in the areas I've used them. But never once have they actually capped it... and I've gone over their limit several times.
I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm grandfathered in? Maybe they put the language in the contract to prevent complaining when they start capping later on? Who knows. Weird though.
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@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@pie_flavor According to their own service description, Comcast has data caps in the areas I've used them. But never once have they actually capped it... and I've gone over their limit several times.
I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm grandfathered in? Maybe they put the language in the contract to prevent complaining when they start capping later on? Who knows. Weird though.
Have you moved recently? Because that's what broke our grandfathering. And I've hit the cap once, after "perfectly legally" downloading quite a few games. Apparently it was capped at a terabyte.
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@pie_flavor said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
Have you moved recently? Because that's what broke our grandfathering. And I've hit the cap once, after "perfectly legally" downloading quite a few games. Apparently it was capped at a terabyte.
Good point, I didn't move until late last month so I guess I might actually have the cap applied now... oh well.
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@sloosecannon said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
Nah, if it's gonna be your boot drive you want at least 500. Less than that and you will eventually run out of space.
I run out of space and that is the size of my boot drive. So my VMs are on external USB drives. Yeah, they're slow. (I have 4 VMs currently using 180GB.) Aren't laptops wonderful? (Yeah, the biz wants us to have laptops, not desktops. How else are we supposed to work at home. Oops, left it at work again...)
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@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
Maybe they put the language in the contract to prevent complaining when they start capping later on?
That might be one reason, yes. I remember several UK ISPs who had nominally a data cap (years ago) and at least one of them explicitly said, somewhere in the T&C, that the cap was not really a hard limit that they planned to enforce, but more something to give them wiggle room in case they noticed problems on the network, and/or to avoid some users abusing the service.
OTOH, it was a nice ISP (yeah, apparently that exists...) and in the UK, so it may or may not apply to yours.
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@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
plus about $10 for a metal thing that let me fit it into a hard drive bay
Just velcro it to the case
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@hungrier said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
velcro
Messy, noisy, old tech. Keep it secured to the case with a magnet
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@jaloopa said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@hungrier said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
velcro
Messy, noisy, old tech. Keep it secured to the case with a magnet
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@accalia said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@jaloopa said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@hungrier said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
velcro
Messy, noisy, old tech. Keep it secured to the case with a magnet
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.
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@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@sloosecannon said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
That's terrible. Awful internet speeds, with a data cap? Jeez...
welcome to the rest of north america, y'all. rogers in had a plan with a 2GB usage limit for home internet @ 512kbps (not B, b) at least a couple of years ago. $5/GB extra, IIRC.
I found it hilarious when TWC rolled out 250GB data limits and people in NY were bitching about how it was insane and inhumane. bitch, my family had a 25GB limit while I was in high school! Imagine having to watch torrented 350MB movies because you only had a couple of GB left to spare for the next 2 weeks...
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@bb36e When I was your age I had to Torrent 15MB movies. Uphill! Barefoot! Both ways!
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@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.
BEN how do you know the Red Green Show? You don't know ANYTHING pop culture. YOU ARE BLOWING MY MIND.
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@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.
BEN how do you know the Red Green Show? You don't know ANYTHING pop culture. YOU ARE BLOWING MY MIND.
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@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.
BEN how do you know the Red Green Show? You don't know ANYTHING pop culture. YOU ARE BLOWING MY MIND.
given that the entire show is on youtube I assume he watched it there.
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@accalia said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.
BEN how do you know the Red Green Show? You don't know ANYTHING pop culture. YOU ARE BLOWING MY MIND.
given that the entire show is on youtube I assume he watched it there.
How are you still assuming that 8 hours after I posted a link to my local public TV station?
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@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@accalia said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@blakeyrat said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@ben_lubar said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.
BEN how do you know the Red Green Show? You don't know ANYTHING pop culture. YOU ARE BLOWING MY MIND.
given that the entire show is on youtube I assume he watched it there.
How are you still assuming that 8 hours after I posted a link to my local public TV station?
yes. yes i am.
that's what it means to assume.
it makes an ass of you.
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@greybeard said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e When I was your age I had to Torrent 15MB movies. Uphill! Barefoot! Both ways!
Torrent? When I was his age I had to download 200KB uuencoded jpegs in multiple parts from usenet.
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@boomzilla said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@greybeard said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e When I was your age I had to Torrent 15MB movies. Uphill! Barefoot! Both ways!
Torrent? When I was his age I had to download 200KB uuencoded jpegs in multiple parts from usenet.
I remember those...
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@boomzilla said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@greybeard said in Can @ben_lubar get an SSD?:
@bb36e When I was your age I had to Torrent 15MB movies. Uphill! Barefoot! Both ways!
Torrent? When I was his age I had to download 200KB uuencoded jpegs in multiple parts from usenet.
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