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RAMChYLD
post Nov 18 2011, 03:45 PM

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I hope they listen and increase the limit and/or give people ability to pay for additional limit. Had first taste of DCUO update last night- 1.1GB!

Then got TF2, CS, GMod, Toontown Online... Each one also quite big, iirc TF2 update on Halloween is 550MB. Per computer. Then consider the fact that Steam games update 3-4 times a week!

And then that's across two gaming rigs, one Linux box testing using Wine, and Mac versions of the games on the Mac Mini.

And then there's the Linux update. Do you have any idea how large Opensuse Factory updates are? (hint, a full DVD worth every few months, some days only 10MB, but most days at least 200MB at least). Arch Linux and Debian SID updates are smaller, but still noticable on the bandwidth meter (Debian SID updates can often hit 250MB a day).

And then there's the Windows/Office Updates. 3 PCs (Win7 on Rig 1 and MCPC, XP Pro x64 on Rig 2). No small matter, I've seen update hit 200-300MB a month, over 1GB if there's a SP for Windows/Office (although if got SP I download offline installer image and install from there instead). Then Mac OS X- updates can reach 700MB-1.1GB when version number increment. Most other update tho is small enough- around 50-100MB only.

And that's not counting Antivirus. ClamAV on three linux boxes, one OpenBSD box and one Mac, Avast antivirus and Spybot-SD antispyware on three Windows boxes. NAV on PMG3, but that one hasn't had a new update in donkey years.

And then PS3, XBox, Wii updates...

Don't get me started about iOS/Android updates!

And all those are my own use and excludes normal traffic (online game traffic, Youtube, forums, the occasional FTP download for office work and personal work, online shopping, iPad/Android apps, etc).

What about my dad and mom use (very heavy youtube users), my Sis' use (some movie streaming app, P2P, etc.)?

I don't think 120GB is enough. Better give option to buy more.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Nov 18 2011, 03:58 PM

 

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