Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!

[ARYANTO]

137TB in a month – South Africa’s biggest lockdown bandwidth hog
[Wonder where he\she stored all this d/loaded content ? - I have 3 x 2 TB and 2 x 1 TB ext. hard drives ...]
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/tele...down-bandwidth-hog.html?utm_source=newsletter

 

[M.Adhir]

137TB in a month – South Africa’s biggest lockdown bandwidth hog
[Wonder where he\she stored all this d/loaded content ? - I have 3 x 2 TB and 2 x 1 TB ext. hard drives ...]
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/tele...down-bandwidth-hog.html?utm_source=newsletter

Probably 4k streaming and gaming

Most people don't store in drives these days.

Uncapped net means people re-stream the same things over and over

 

[ARYANTO]

I play Steam games constantly in multi mode but have never used that much, I store music and series on my hard drives and use Cloud storage .
Streaming Netflix too , this person must have a lot of kids ...

 

[Kuhlkatz]

137TB in a month – South Africa’s biggest lockdown bandwidth hog
[Wonder where he\she stored all this d/loaded content ? - I have 3 x 2 TB and 2 x 1 TB ext. hard drives ...]
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/tele...down-bandwidth-hog.html?utm_source=newsletter

I am so glad there are local people backing up the internet for us in case we lose our international connectivity...

 

[Kuhlkatz]

Probably 4k streaming and gaming

Most people don't store in drives these days.

Uncapped net means people re-stream the same things over and over

Netflix at some point estimated a 7GB per Hour for 4K streaming, so 168G for a day. Some others sites reckon 14GB an hour for 4K, so 336GB / day worst case. Even at 14GB an hour, to stream 4K 24/7 for 365 days should get you to around 122640GB / Year (~ 119.77 TB / year). Still far less than this amount just for a single month.
To hit 137TB in a month means you are downloading (using) around 190 GB per hour, 24/7 for the whole month. 1.6 Petabytes per year in total if you are allowed continue along that trend.

I see the usage for this user unfortunately dwindled down in the following months, likely battling to find more cloud storage for all their internet backups. Either that, or someone mentioned something about Fair Usage Policies to them.

 

[Kuhlkatz]

I play Steam games constantly in multi mode but have never used that much, I store music and series on my hard drives and use Cloud storage .
Streaming Netflix too , this person must have a lot of kids ...

My highest monthly usage EVER was 717GB in August, which likely included an MS Flight Sim 2020 download on release day as well.
Seems like I am merely an amateur compared to some guys out there

 

[Resistance]

137TB in a month – South Africa’s biggest lockdown bandwidth hog
[Wonder where he\she stored all this d/loaded content ? - I have 3 x 2 TB and 2 x 1 TB ext. hard drives ...]
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/tele...down-bandwidth-hog.html?utm_source=newsletter

Sjoe! Is there that much time in a month to use that much Data.

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[NecroticAngel]

https://businesstech.co.za/news/lif...ing-and-a-100-ban-on-smoking-in-public-areas/

 

[ARYANTO]

https://businesstech.co.za/news/lif...ing-and-a-100-ban-on-smoking-in-public-areas/

QUOTED
''The bill is expected to further regulate the use, marketing and sales of e-cigarettes or vapes in South Africa, with these products currently operating in a vacuum.
Government has also indicated that it plans to introduce further restrictions around the smoking of cigarettes in public places.

Deputy health minister Joe Phaahla said in May that government was in process of finalising the bill which will allow it to impose a 100% ban on smoking in public areas.''

Kopdoek's new anthem
''I'm gonna getcha; it's a matter of fact
(I'm gonna getcha)
I'm gonna getcha, don'tcha worry 'bout that
(Yeah, you can betcha)
You can bet your bottom dollar ''
Shania Twain

 

[fbb1964]

Covid 19 reality check as featured on Sky News yesterday.

https://www.skynews.com.au/details/...NDp3enqtGU0S5ry3NSZp6v4YNDxmc5t8aAhmxEALw_wcB

 

[fbb1964]

https://businesstech.co.za/news/lif...ing-and-a-100-ban-on-smoking-in-public-areas/

the good news. i see the word regulate not the word ban. let's see what the actual bill looks like when it's announced. any additional details available on this planned bill perhaps? im following this with great interest as I really really hope the vapers in SA don't ever have to go through this postponed vape nic ban crap as in AU.

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[vicTor]

 

[ARYANTO]

South Africa’s new traffic laws will be “too frightening to imagine”
If South Africa’s new traffic laws are implemented next year, the injustices they will cause will be too frightening to imagine.

This is the view of Justice Project South Africa (JPSA) head Howard Dembovsky, who publicly endorsed a submission made by the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) criticising the latest draft Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) regulations.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/moto...-laws-will-be-too-frightening-to-imagine.html

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Grand Guru]

Morning combo with some pistachio flavoured Persian Cake from ADV!

 

[ARYANTO]

Asking Netflix and DStv to collect TV license fees a “crazy suggestion”
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) plan to ask Netflix and MultiChoice to collect TV license fees has been dismissed as unrealistic by experts.

Deputy Communications Minister Pinky Kekana has recently said the expanded definition of a TV licence is outdated and needs to be adjusted to current realities.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broa...a-crazy-suggestion.html?utm_source=newsletter

 

[ARYANTO]

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[Grand Guru]

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[ARYANTO]

 

[Intuthu Kagesi]

What are your thoughts on this?
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6203093698001

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Stranger]

What are your thoughts on this?
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6203093698001

I think hindsight is a wonderful thing. This virus is novel (adjective. of a new and unusual kind; different from anything seen or known before), and even now they don't understand it. So it is OK to say, we need not have done this or that, but the real fact is no one really knows, even now.