who needs northern lights

nakedbones asked: Nobody needs northern lights, but they sure are beautiful anyway.

They really are.  As with all things natural. Who needs northern lights, when I’m looking into your eyes.

Well, shopping with my mother to buy some snacks. Then she made me a few cups of coffee since I’m an addict to the stuff. I worked on some photos for a hair stylist I met in the park while I was waiting for Ashley.  She’s adorable. Then I played World of Warcraft for a few hours.  I’m not feeling so hot today, so sitting down and doing playing WoW on Shattered Halls is fun. It’s a cool game to kill time with.  I’m getting pretty good at it. Hell, I had a few elitistjerks tell me I was amazing for a DK at my level.  My guys name is Patronus if you want to play with me.  74 Death Knight.  Anyways, enough of that boring subject! This week is going to be killer busy.  Three anniversaries and one birthday to go to.  Plus my nonna is coming home from Italy.  I’m going to be so tired from all this.

Internet caps in Canada, namely Toronto have become something of a bother to me now. It’s an old topic.  Frankly, I find it absurd.  Basically, an internet bandwidth cap is a set about of data a household or connection is allowed to use before said company charges the user extra per gigabyte over the cap.  For example:  I have a 60 gig cap.  Mind you, us Canadian’s have mediocre connection speeds as it is.  I go over occasionally because I have quite a large amount of people in my family using the internet.  Plus I work off the internet, so data is constantly being streamed.  With that being said, I go over every month. Not by much, a few gigs here and the.  The thing with my ISP is they cap the amount of money you can spend on over usage.  I have a 25 dollar cap on top of my normal rate. What does this all translate to?  Well here it is in a math equation in case I’m losing you with this stupidity.

$39.99 ($/month) + $3 modem fee($/month) = $42.99 + $25 (extra fee’s) = $67.99 x 1.13 (tax) = $76.83

$76.83 for a lousy 12 megabit connection. Rogers, my ISP, sent me a notice in the mail saying, “Since you have been going over your cap, we’re going to up it to a 50 dollar cap on top of your normal rate.” Well thanks Rogers!  Not only am I paying for your internet, but I have to pay for it twice!

Let’s break this down further, shall we? First off this is just a money grab.  No doubt about it. Two years ago this didn’t exist and internet usage was no bigger than it is now. The only reason why anyone would have a cap to generate more revenue is to upgrade servers because the current ones are swamped. Quite honestly, if you’re that big of a company and if it is true that you can’t support your customers, then you should really invest in better networking.  I personally know all about making a server and new servers are top notch, but company’s all use old technology.  Why?  If they upgrade it means downtime and lose in “precious” data.  Downtime means less money — oh no!

My second point is, if you are a big company concerned about usage then why offer packages with such high speeds? Ya great, now I have a high speed.  50 mb connection, I’ll put it to use and now I’ll have to pay even more if I go over my cap. Granted the caps are bigger for the large scale packages, but I digress.

Third point? Malicious attacks, ads, and wireless.  Malicious attacks can eat at your bandwidth.  Thus raising your usage quite rapidly.  Do we have control of when we get attack? The answer is no. If we do, well, we better grab our wallet now. Ads also add to the download cap.  Not as much, but they add up — fast. The biggest problem is theft of wireless internet. I myself have a wired connection and I don’t have this problem.  Though, those with wireless connections usually get their connection stolen if they don’t know how to properly secure it.  Which means… oh you guessed it, more consumption of data!

These consumption caps do have a lot more cons then pros, if any pros at all.  It was a terrible move on the ISP’s part.  It’s like I’m buying a cake and if I eat more than half, I have to pay extra.

pipedowncate:

nights. I’m not to sure why. I guess I’ll do some homework to pass the time.

I get that too! It’s the strangest thing.