{"id":457,"date":"2007-12-01T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=457"},"modified":"2007-12-01T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T02:52:00","slug":"choked-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/12\/01\/choked-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Choked Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two weeks ago my ISP<\/a> knocked on my door and explained that because he had taken on new clients, he was going to have to limit my internet consumption to 250 MB\/day. He said that up until now, for the 18 months that I had been ‘enjoying’ the service, I had not had any limits while others had been locked down to 100 MB\/day. He said that on occasion I pushed 1 GB and even went over 1 GB once. <\/p>\n

Now, when I go over my limit my internet service dies for about 20 hours. This happened a couple Sundays ago. I was sad.<\/p>\n

So I got me a little net monitor<\/a> to make sure that never happens again. I’ve been maintaining about 100 MB\/day (up and downloads combined). Blogging, emailing, shopping, facebooking, downloading software updates, maintaining zaakistan.com<\/a>, getting podcasts (a big consumer of bandwidth), and getting The Office episode every week (if it ever resumes), and reading other people’s blogs now has to be done carefully. With bridled restraint.<\/p>\n

It hurtses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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