Increase in data
June 15th 2012 02:02
If you've had any thoughts at all about Chromebook in all its variations, then have a read of Andy Ihnatko's comments on his usage of the machine. Unfortunately the headline for the article, it seems to me, is rather offputting, making an assumption about future users that are less likely to be the case than the reality. That aside, he makes some very good points, and the article offers food for thought on the whole Cloud approach to computing. Certainly it's fine to be able to lose the machine through whatever disaster one minute and pick up exactly where you left off the next, and that's a plus, but the amount of broadband needed may be an issue for many users outside the US.
We've just had our broadband ceiling go up to 80 gigs a month. We were on 20 gigs when we started with Vodafone just a few months ago, found that for some reason we were always just going over that figure (perhaps aided by there being two iPads in the house as well as the usual computers) and so rather than paying $20 for what might only be a couple of days in order to get 20 extra gigs (and then lose most of that) we opted to go to their next level, which was 60 gigs rather than 40. That only cost us $10 more. Curious.
And then Vodafone announced a few days ago that we've been upgraded to 80 gigs a month - at no extra cost. Well that's good, but there are only so many movies I can watch in a month on the computer (usually hardly any, in fact) via streaming, and though this last month we managed to use a lot of broadband because I backed up most of my computer to JustCloud, that's unusual. The JustCloud upload turned out to be more expensive than I expected - in dollar terms rather than data. It was touted as a free service and was, until you realised it wanted to go ahead and load everything and the only way you can do that is by paying for it. Anyway, it's working well, so I won't complain, and I've only used 10 gig of the 250 that are available to me at this point! (Good grief!)
But in the average month, even given upgrades to various Mac devices, it's unlikely we'll reach the exalted heights of 80 gigs. I suppose the Mac users in the house could start leaving their devices on the Apple Cloud all the time - that might chew through some data - but the reality is neither of them really want or need to do that.
So we have all this data going to waste, as it were. How much time in a day do I want to spend sending and receiving data? Not that much, probably!
We've just had our broadband ceiling go up to 80 gigs a month. We were on 20 gigs when we started with Vodafone just a few months ago, found that for some reason we were always just going over that figure (perhaps aided by there being two iPads in the house as well as the usual computers) and so rather than paying $20 for what might only be a couple of days in order to get 20 extra gigs (and then lose most of that) we opted to go to their next level, which was 60 gigs rather than 40. That only cost us $10 more. Curious.
And then Vodafone announced a few days ago that we've been upgraded to 80 gigs a month - at no extra cost. Well that's good, but there are only so many movies I can watch in a month on the computer (usually hardly any, in fact) via streaming, and though this last month we managed to use a lot of broadband because I backed up most of my computer to JustCloud, that's unusual. The JustCloud upload turned out to be more expensive than I expected - in dollar terms rather than data. It was touted as a free service and was, until you realised it wanted to go ahead and load everything and the only way you can do that is by paying for it. Anyway, it's working well, so I won't complain, and I've only used 10 gig of the 250 that are available to me at this point! (Good grief!)
But in the average month, even given upgrades to various Mac devices, it's unlikely we'll reach the exalted heights of 80 gigs. I suppose the Mac users in the house could start leaving their devices on the Apple Cloud all the time - that might chew through some data - but the reality is neither of them really want or need to do that.
So we have all this data going to waste, as it were. How much time in a day do I want to spend sending and receiving data? Not that much, probably!
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