Pretty much every Aussie ISP will break it down into days used, and some will even be able to tell you what ports you thrashed.
I have this nice little program in my system tray that shows me how much I have used in my "month", how many days remaining, how much I have been using per day and how much I have remaining per day.
But back to the OP, about 65-75GB a month between 2 people.
On my little 10mb/s aussie connection, I regularly cap out my download speed, quite often with a single thread.
Anything from my ISP servers for a start (all major linux distros, game demos/vids, steam, Usenet, sourceforge, majorgeeks, others) as well as several other places (nvidia, microsoft) always flies strait to 1.1 MB/s and stays there for the duration of the download.
Not even going into the stupidity of "only allowing 250G a month", I struggle to download more than 25G a month on a 10mb/s link (not counting all the unmetered stuff my ISP "gives" me, the Usenet of course is counted).
And for all the "they can't advertise as unlimited" people,http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/2339207# how many hours do they (and not reality) restrict you to being on each month? This is a tactic that aussie "dodgy" ISPs have been using for a while:/
Most definitely not joking, a lot of cheap PSUs (the ones around the 300W range) drive a lot of juice into the 5v rail but not much into the 12V (stupid idea, since most power on a pc is all 12V now), a cheap 300W PSU with 4 HDD and a "10w via mobo" used as a cheap NAS will usually crap out on you because the 12V is heavily over-drawn.
Uh, never made a fan-bus or any low voltage stuff for a pc have you?:)
Its because they have a common ground that it works, you use the 5v rail as a 0v reference and the 12v rail as your vcc, the delta is of course 7v.
And for all those talking about USB -> plug pack adapters, the whole thing he had issues with was having 2 power boards of plug packs in the first place, this would replace them with a single power lead, be reasonably power efficient (most good switch-modes running under 90% total load will run with over 80% efficiency).
And no, you wouldn't need a 500W, it was just an example of a typical PSU most people have laying around (too big for a itx box, too small for anything with a good vid card or 2 or a big rack of HDD.
And will make your USB power fall over and die and blow something up, very creative and "performance art".
Better:
500W PSU a pair of side cutters soldering iron a terminal block tons of heat-shrink
Select and solder some heatsinked resistors over the 12v and 5v rails so that you are sinking an amp in each (switchmode PSUs need a constant load).
Next tap wires for different chargers, 12v and 5v are easy (as almost all are now) 3.3 and 12v will give you around 9v, 5v and 12v will give you 7.
Then all you need is a nice little cabinet with some ventilation and one power lead and you can dump all your junk in there to charge and GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE AND LEAVE THEM BEHIND!
A phone, an mp3 player and a camera should do anyone, heck some phones can be your mp3 and camera too now.
And if you can't follow even a bit of what I said, don't try it:)
Well, the rumour about their mobo partners dropping chipsets was probably started by the Inquirer (long history of fact deficient articles), they were purporting that Gigabyte had dropped their 700i series chipsets, when, in fact, they had never started making them (as I pointed out here in the first comment).
With the windows media player classic, you can indeed have your video hardware speed things up, it does it by making a 2 triangle direct3d window and rendering the video stream as a texture, with today's low end video cards this takes a load off the CPU having to do overlays in 2d windows.
Also (and I know its not OSS) but corecodec does a great job, ffmpeg under windows is very bad at threading h.264 content, to the point where a fast AMD dual core will struggle with 1080p, but corecodec plays it back smooth. Also they have a history of being OSS project friendly (after the initial knee-jerk by a law dog of theirs of course).
With video conversion faster storage (not low latency) is the big winner, with huge cache being a close second.
If you want the fastest video encodes with no care to cost, get an 8-way pci-e raid card and 8 laptop sata HDD, small and very very fast in a stripe raid.
The netcomm nb5 had 200 max connections (you could log into its console and increase it, so long as you weren't running QoS), mine would die after 10 min running with 3 BT clients on the lan.
Replaced with VIA mobo based machine with monowall, not had a problem requiring a reboot since (that wasn't a firmware upgrade that is).
VIA mobo under clocked with a USB stick booting monowall, the only time it reboots is when the UPS runs out of juice during a long power outage (once in past 2 years).
Not as cheap as all those crappy little routers, but solid as a rock, supporting more open ip connections and features than your mom!
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Whilst I do have room to store "terabytes of data" I really am fucked if I know where to get em, I mean there is only so much stuff you can get :/
No, its MuM, the internode Monthly Usage Meter :)
Pretty much every Aussie ISP will break it down into days used, and some will even be able to tell you what ports you thrashed.
I have this nice little program in my system tray that shows me how much I have used in my "month", how many days remaining, how much I have been using per day and how much I have remaining per day.
But back to the OP, about 65-75GB a month between 2 people.
Then do yourself a favour, look up "the fast show" and the HHGG British radio series on TPB and become enlightened :)
If you loved the radio series (so do I) do yourself a favour and get into "The Fast Show".
This man's sense of comedy will be sorely missed ;(
On my little 10mb/s aussie connection, I regularly cap out my download speed, quite often with a single thread.
Anything from my ISP servers for a start (all major linux distros, game demos/vids, steam, Usenet, sourceforge, majorgeeks, others) as well as several other places (nvidia, microsoft) always flies strait to 1.1 MB/s and stays there for the duration of the download.
Not even going into the stupidity of "only allowing 250G a month", I struggle to download more than 25G a month on a 10mb/s link (not counting all the unmetered stuff my ISP "gives" me, the Usenet of course is counted).
And for all the "they can't advertise as unlimited" people,http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/2339207# how many hours do they (and not reality) restrict you to being on each month? This is a tactic that aussie "dodgy" ISPs have been using for a while :/
Most definitely not joking, a lot of cheap PSUs (the ones around the 300W range) drive a lot of juice into the 5v rail but not much into the 12V (stupid idea, since most power on a pc is all 12V now), a cheap 300W PSU with 4 HDD and a "10w via mobo" used as a cheap NAS will usually crap out on you because the 12V is heavily over-drawn.
Uh, never made a fan-bus or any low voltage stuff for a pc have you? :)
Its because they have a common ground that it works, you use the 5v rail as a 0v reference and the 12v rail as your vcc, the delta is of course 7v.
And for all those talking about USB -> plug pack adapters, the whole thing he had issues with was having 2 power boards of plug packs in the first place, this would replace them with a single power lead, be reasonably power efficient (most good switch-modes running under 90% total load will run with over 80% efficiency).
And no, you wouldn't need a 500W, it was just an example of a typical PSU most people have laying around (too big for a itx box, too small for anything with a good vid card or 2 or a big rack of HDD.
And will make your USB power fall over and die and blow something up, very creative and "performance art".
Better:
500W PSU
a pair of side cutters
soldering iron
a terminal block
tons of heat-shrink
Select and solder some heatsinked resistors over the 12v and 5v rails so that you are sinking an amp in each (switchmode PSUs need a constant load).
Next tap wires for different chargers, 12v and 5v are easy (as almost all are now) 3.3 and 12v will give you around 9v, 5v and 12v will give you 7.
Then all you need is a nice little cabinet with some ventilation and one power lead and you can dump all your junk in there to charge and GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE AND LEAVE THEM BEHIND!
A phone, an mp3 player and a camera should do anyone, heck some phones can be your mp3 and camera too now.
And if you can't follow even a bit of what I said, don't try it :)
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Oh how we miss you
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!
Nm, false start, apparently the editors can't tell a 10 year old game from a new one.
Yes I burn karma, mode me up for it kthx.
Nah, its still never coming out to PC, shitting all over the fans who have actually been anticipating this, the duke is dead to me.
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So, uh, he did it right then :)
Yeah, I know, I RTFA, so sue me.
Mod parent +1 funny please :)
Well, the rumour about their mobo partners dropping chipsets was probably started by the Inquirer (long history of fact deficient articles), they were purporting that Gigabyte had dropped their 700i series chipsets, when, in fact, they had never started making them (as I pointed out here in the first comment).
Now you just need to post it every 2-3 days, that way to get the dupe quotient, now how does one fit the "slow news day for kdawson" requirement?
With the windows media player classic, you can indeed have your video hardware speed things up, it does it by making a 2 triangle direct3d window and rendering the video stream as a texture, with today's low end video cards this takes a load off the CPU having to do overlays in 2d windows.
Also (and I know its not OSS) but corecodec does a great job, ffmpeg under windows is very bad at threading h.264 content, to the point where a fast AMD dual core will struggle with 1080p, but corecodec plays it back smooth. Also they have a history of being OSS project friendly (after the initial knee-jerk by a law dog of theirs of course).
With video conversion faster storage (not low latency) is the big winner, with huge cache being a close second.
If you want the fastest video encodes with no care to cost, get an 8-way pci-e raid card and 8 laptop sata HDD, small and very very fast in a stripe raid.
Nah, Microsoft win here.
1 OEM pack for Windows Home Server (same size as all the vista OEM packs), NO packing materiel but just bouncing around inside a 1.5' cubic box.
You young whipper snappers.
In my day, we used IRC.
Now, GIT OFFA MUH LAWN!
The netcomm nb5 had 200 max connections (you could log into its console and increase it, so long as you weren't running QoS), mine would die after 10 min running with 3 BT clients on the lan.
Replaced with VIA mobo based machine with monowall, not had a problem requiring a reboot since (that wasn't a firmware upgrade that is).
Problem I have seen with a lot of these routers, and its very visible because a fair few of them have linux in em.
Max open connections: 200
Auto close connections after: 3 days
Add a BT client or 2 to the network with "unlimited open ports" option and its sleepy time for the router gnomes.
I'll take the first two options please.
VIA mobo under clocked with a USB stick booting monowall, the only time it reboots is when the UPS runs out of juice during a long power outage (once in past 2 years).
Not as cheap as all those crappy little routers, but solid as a rock, supporting more open ip connections and features than your mom!
I think I might get some seagate shares myself.
If something was to magically relieve the backbone bandwidth limits at all the telcos I think all the mass storage makers would be ecstatic.