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On February 22 2015 07:12 Kipsate wrote:
If I enjoy it I watch it, if I don't enjoy it I don't watch it, if I really enjoy it I will watch episodes more often
all the criteria I need, stuff is so easy to DL these days that I can just check it out myself.
God damn Europeans with their reasonable internet service.
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Is it really that hard to stream in canadia?
I feel like I have pretty particular tastes so I just watch what I know I like and dabble in what I hear other people are good, then talk to certain people about our common interests. (Numy monogatari, Frolo yanderes, Slaughter harems, etc). Pretty ezpz.
Saekano is a good ride. Don't go into expecting amazing stuff but it has meta moments and decent fanservice for a series that isn't about over the top eechi.
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On February 22 2015 07:39 NeoIllusions wrote:
Is it really that hard to stream in canadia?
I feel like I have pretty particular tastes so I just watch what I know I like and dabble in what I hear other people are good, then talk to certain people about our common interests. (Numy monogatari, Frolo yanderes, Slaughter harems, etc). Pretty ezpz.
Saekano is a good ride. Don't go into expecting amazing stuff but it has meta moments and decent fanservice for a series that isn't about over the top eechi.
Streaming isn't a problem, but data caps are...
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I live in Africa and torrent all my stuff in 1080p/720. How is internet worse in a first world country?
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Ai... I see.
In that case, yeah, I can see why you go on recommendations. o/
I definitely don't feel like I keep up with current season series so I read MAL for synopses then just read here and reddit for what's good to the general public.
Normally I prefer binge watching/reading rather than keeping up to weekly releases but on occasion I'll get into the weekly routine if there's enough friends who also watch and we have something to talk about (e.g. Kancolle, Kongou desu~)
@Crab: idk if it's worse connection but sounds like worse pricing? idk. Does SA have data caps too? You do d/l a shitton of stuff. zz
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Canada4481 Posts
On February 22 2015 07:44 Numy wrote:
I live in Africa and torrent all my stuff in 1080p/720. How is internet worse in a first world country?
Monopolies. Doesn't surprise me tbh. Canada is ranked pretty low in terms of Internet speeds globally.
That said, I have 400GB cap so I just DL w/e I want 
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We do have data caps but you can fork in the extra cash for "uncapped". Which they generally shape during the day time so you only get max line speed from some time they designate(Usually 12-7am). Stuff like browsing is fine, mainly torrent are gutted. Max line you can reasonably get is 4mb uncapped which is around R1000 for line rental and cap. That's about 90$ a month. You can pay about double that amount to get 10mb in certain areas but there's no guarantee of getting your line syncing at that.
I did just copy 290gb from NAS drive though. May have gone overboard.. :< I think I do roughly 200gb a month maybe 250-300 on a big month.
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meanwhile I'm paying 19,99€ for 16mbit uncapped and consider that a scam.
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On February 22 2015 08:09 Toadesstern wrote:
meanwhile I'm paying 19,99€ for 16mbit uncapped and consider that a scam.
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it is a scam though. I'm usually at 12.5 mbit or something like that
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On February 22 2015 08:11 Toadesstern wrote:
it is a scam though. I'm usually at 12.5 mbit or something like that
You don't pay for a certain speed, you pay for the potential to get that speed. Lines can sync at various speeds depending your conditions like distance from exchange or congestion of exchange. Anyway my point is I find it hard to believe that you guys can't watch all the anime you want when I can lol.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Data caps are a real thing in Canadia, and even some parts of 'murrica.
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On February 22 2015 08:14 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 22 2015 08:11 Toadesstern wrote:
it is a scam though. I'm usually at 12.5 mbit or something like that You don't pay for a certain speed, you pay for the potential to get that speed. Lines can sync at various speeds depending your conditions like distance from exchange or congestion of exchange. Anyway my point is I find it hard to believe that you guys can't watch all the anime you want when I can lol.
I used to have a 60gig/month cap. I think I'm at 120gigs now, maybe a bit higher. And it's not like I'm out in the boonies either.
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I had a datacap of 30gig/month while being in university housing... that was the most horrible thing ever.
Can you imagine literally having a a 6ms ping in games as well as easily 100mbit because it's universityinternet but it's capped at 30gig? What's even the point of that... so glad I'm out of there
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Is that just greed or is your infrastructure not able to keep up with the technology at all? We got quite a few large overseas cables built in the last few years which helped capacity immensely but are still rather gated by our internal infrastructure. Having such tiny caps on what I'm assuming is rather fast line in comparison sounds like the capacity just isn't there at all. I guess it can't help that the population density that uses internet is a lot higher.
I'm by no means an expert on this stuff but dam have countries royally fucked up when you have such tiny caps with such large speeds. Technology development > government foresight lol
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
Dunno about Canada but it is definitely capitalism (or actually, the lack of competition) and politics ruining things in America.
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Well, some of it in Canada is because of competition (which has actually gotten a lot better in the last few years).
But also because it's a huge country with a comparatively small population that's really spread out.
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I use Shaw in Canada and my plan has a 500GB monthly data cap. I use like 250-350 of that on average. I stream tons of stuff but I rarely download.
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Canada8036 Posts
On February 22 2015 08:29 WolfintheSheep wrote:
Well, some of it in Canada is because of competition (which has actually gotten a lot better in the last few years).
But also because it's a huge country with a comparatively small population that's really spread out.
This a million times over. No ISP wants to pay to develop infrastructure because the costs are so high. So we get stuck with mediocre speeds with data caps at relatively high prices.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
This week's GBF Try episode makes me wish my name was Junya.
Junya-kun~
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