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Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

brothertim posted:

That's pretty stupid. 300GB can go extremely fast if you spend any amount of time on steam (endless updates). Are they trying to curtail the transition to digital downloading? Most people don't want to leave the house to rent movies/buy games these days.

I'm not calling bullshit, but what on Earth have you got installed through Steam that's churning through that much bandwidth? I'm capped at 90GB with close to a terabyte of Steam crap, and automatic updates never go anywhere near that much usage.

But yes, throttling competing download sites is a large reason for instituting caps; it's one of the reasons the big incumbents up here in Canada give us such wretched service by default. Netflix was eating the cable companies' lunch, once upon a time, and they'll be god damned if they let something like that happen again while there's the opportunity to add something else to your bill.

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