For the first time everrr!

in #blog5 years ago

Wow! I'm still not really sure what happened but for the first time ever this year, I haven't exceeded my monthly internet data allocation. Lol Currently our subscription only allows us 100GB every month and once you exceed that limit, internet speed drastically drops.

For comparison: it's kinda like I can download a 200-250MB tv episode for only 5-10 minutes and once we exceed our limit that same file will take 30-45mins to complete. I know! Internet in the Philippines kinda sucks! XD

Anyway, before I stumbled upon Steem I rarely exceed that limit but January of this year I noticed that even though there is still a week left before the month ends, our internet speed already dropped. A little bit of searching and pointing out what app/site consumes a lot of data and it seems browsing on Steemit consumes a lot of data as images are not compressed? And so for months I have to live for a week with a reduced internet speed every fourth week of the month but not this month! Yayyy! XD


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And to take advantage of the whole situation, I have been downloading some tv series and anime at the moment before the data is reset in less than 9 hours. XD

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How much are you paying for that subscription?

Dude, I'm paying approx $20 for a subscription that gives 1GB a day for 30 days. What pains me is that is doesn't accumulate for a day that I don't get to finish the 1GB.

Another monthly subs is 1.48GB for about $1.3. I can finish this in a few hours lol

And finally, we have unlimited for roughly $50 a month. Mostly used by cyber cafes 😃

I think everyone knows internet services are very expensive in Africa already.

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I am paying around $38/month. And yeahhh I did hear internet there is kind of expensive too :)

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$38 for 100GB is pretty expensive too, should be unlimited but its far better that what I am using.

Nice knowing what's going on the other side of the world.

congratulations for the very first time lol go and live your life you have only 9 hours :p XD

Superb dear

Good for you Pope ;)

While when using mobile internet this particular thing is noticed even more, I lost quite some money in that fact. I was not aware by data was finished (mobile internet) it started to deduct money from my man balance lol

Download as much as possibleeeee !!

Lol better watch your data consumption next time :)

And yeah downloading as much as I could right now. Thanks!

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Hah. Congrats I guess. But Phillipines needs to step up their internet infrastructure. :D People need fast connection to Steem on properly.

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Thanks! And yeah or at least increase the limit or if possible make it really unlimited with no decreade in internet speed. :)

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in my phone though the case is different :P

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